U.S. companies can mandate that employees in a workplace must be vaccinated against Covid-19, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on May 28.
Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest communications groups, has partnered with NewsGuard to provide its clients with more responsible, trustworthy advertising platforms and content opportunities to combat the “infodemic” in media. Through the partnership, Publicis Groupe clients will gain access to NewsGuard’s Responsible Advertising for News Segments (RANS), an inclusion and exclusion tool for marketers curated by NewsGuard’s team of trained journalists.
More than half of all American adults have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the White House said, roughly six weeks before U.S. President Biden’s July 4 goal of a 70% inoculation rate.
Uber Technologies Inc. and rival Lyft Inc. on May 24 launched Covid-19 vaccine ride programs in partnership with the White House, offering Americans free rides or discounts for their trips to and from a vaccination site.
Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are around 85 percent to 90 percent effective against symptomatic disease, Public Health England (PHE) said on May 20, citing an analysis of real-world data from the rollout of the shot.
Kids in the United States will likely be able to get Covid-19 vaccinations by the end of 2021 or the first quarter of 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said at an event on May 19.
The United States had administered 275,535,207 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as of the morning of May 18 and distributed 346,672,525 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The United States administered Covid-19 vaccinations to around 600,000 children ages 12 to 15 last week after regulators cleared Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s shots for use in that age group, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in a media call on May 18.
Medicago and GlaxoSmithKline reported positive interim Phase 2 clinical trial safety and immunogenicity data for Medicago’s plant-derived Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which has been tested in combination with GSK’s pandemic adjuvant.
U.S. deaths from Covid-19 for the week ended May 16 fell to their lowest in nearly 14 months and the number of new cases continued to decline for a fifth week in a row, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data.
