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How to Know When (or If) You Need Another COVID Vaccine

What started as a simple recipe for COVID protection--get a jab, come back in three weeks and get another--became a byzantine labyrinth to navigate over the last thirty months. The government has reco...

May 2023

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A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa

[photo1]Syriacus BuguziIn February, a 23-year-old Tanzanian fisherman suddenly fell ill, having just returned from a busy trading outpost in the middle of Lake Victoria. Back at home in Bukoba, a dist...

Apr 2023

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Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH's role

In Congressional testimony Wednesday, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel unabashedly defended the company's plans to raise the US list price of its COVID-19 vaccines by more than 400 percent--despite creatin...

Mar 2023

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As COVID vaccine patent dispute drags on, Moderna forks over $400M to NIH

Vaccine maker Moderna has forked over $400 million to the National Institutes of Health for using a molecular stabilizing technique borrowed from government and academic researchers in its mRNA-based ...

Feb 2023