A leading vaccine candidate from pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University showed a “robust immune” response to the coronavirus in a randomized trial in humans, the company said Monday. Researchers tried both a one-shot dose and a two-dose regimen of the vaccine known as AZD1222 in the phase I-II trial involving more than 1,000 adults.…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…