MacCannell says he did everything he could think of to get a handle on the crisis: He and his team devised protocols to help public-health labs start new sequencing programs; developed plans for partnering with commercial labs, which have much greater capacity overall; and set up a consortium of scientists across the country to collaborate…
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The German company CureVac delivered disappointing preliminary results on Wednesday from a clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine, dimming hopes that it could help fill the world’s great need. The trial, which included 40,000 volunteers in Latin America and Europe, estimated that CureVac’s mRNA vaccine had an efficacy of just 47 percent, among the lowest…
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Richard R. Ernst, a Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1991 for his work refining nuclear magnetic resonance, or N.M.R., spectroscopy, the powerful method of chemical analysis behind M.R.I. technology, died on June 4 in Winterthur, in northern Switzerland. He was 87. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), where Dr.…
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After awarding Emergent the no-bid contract, the Trump administration reverted to traditional contracting rules and sought competitive proposals for additional bottling and packaging, known in the industry as fill-finish work, the documents show. Ology Bioservices, based in Alachua, Fla., agreed to provide essentially the same services as Emergent’s Camden and Rockville plants for three-quarters to…
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By David Dodge Photographs by Bart Heynen When Bart Heynen showed up at a Brooklyn home of a family he hoped to photograph in 2015, his subjects weren’t quite ready. One dad was busy finishing some ironing and the other was cleaning the house, newborn son in arms. The scene struck Mr. Heynen, himself a…
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“What kept me alive is that he held my hand,” Mrs. Gerney said of Detective Ragonese. He said at the time, “She is the most courageous man or woman I ever met.” On the phone this week, he said: “There’s a point where a lot of people would have given up. She had a strong…
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Welcome. California officially reopened on Tuesday. In New York, restaurants and movie theaters are no longer required to space patrons six feet apart. The European Union is expected to open to American tourists on Friday. As regulations change rapidly, questions about travel abound: What are the testing and vaccination requirements for domestic and international travel?…
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Tory Burch “Our collection is a celebration of fantasy, conveying a renewed sense of hope, escape and, quite simply, what we want to wear when we can go out again,” Tory Burch said in a press release. The result is what we consider the modern ball skirt. The collection situates glamour as irreverent prints and…
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Good morning. There are some nights when all I want to eat for dinner is super-crisp chicken wings with ranch dressing, or hot dogs loaded with chopped pickles and streaked with crema and hot sauce. They’re usually Wednesday nights when I want a break from cooking, but don’t want to deal with the invariable disappointment…
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Backyard Research Blacklegged tick disease in humans is often contracted close to home, in backyards and neighborhoods. Various multiyear research projects past and present seek to reduce that risk — among them, The Tick Project, at Cary Institute, in collaboration with Bard College, and the Backyard Integrated Tick Management Study, at Western Connecticut State University.…
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