The Gamaleya Research Institute, part of Russia’s Ministry of Health, developed a coronavirus vaccine known as Sputnik V or Gam-Covid-Vac. Gamaleya announced in December that the vaccine had an efficacy of 91.4 percent. Russia is using it in a mass vaccination campaign, and it is now being distributed in Argentina, …
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The Indian company Bharat Biotech partnered with the National Institute of Virology and the Indian Council of Medical Research to develop an inactivated coronavirus vaccine called Covaxin. India authorized the vaccine for emergency use on Jan. 3, despite a lack of published Phase 3 data showing the vaccine is safe …
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In early 2020, the Beijing Institute of Biological Products created an inactivated coronavirus vaccine called BBIBP-CorV. It was later put into clinical trials by the state-owned Chinese company Sinopharm. China approved the vaccine on Thursday, and the vaccine is also in use in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. A …
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The University of Oxford partnered with the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca to develop and test a coronavirus vaccine known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or AZD1222. A clinical trial revealed the vaccine was up to 90 percent effective, depending on the initial dosage. But uncertainty over the results has clouded its prospects. A …
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Alexis Block was worried that the robot she’d built was malfunctioning. She was testing the optimal hug duration for her “HuggieBot 1.0,” a purple-furred, on-demand squeeze machine. Ms. Block had built pressure sensors into the machine’s torso, so if the human tester tapped or squeezed the robot on the back, …
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Credit card interest can be unrelenting. Even if you don’t charge a single thing on the credit card for a full month, the balance can still go up. Credit cards are designed from the ground up to keep extracting money from your pocket as efficiently as possible and for as …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now If you feel the need to keep up with cutting-edge video game hardware, 2020 is a rough year thanks to the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nvidia’s RTX 3080 GPU. That’s especially true if the pandemic has put a …
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The #ITGTopShelfie interview series focuses on the beauty routines of Into The Gloss’ lovely, accomplished, and loyal community of readers. Submit your own on Instagram—post your Top Shelfie (tag us @intothegloss!) and include the hashtag #ITGTopShelfie for a chance to be featured on ITG. “Hello, I’m Hilaria (@hilariabaldwin). I started …
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If you’ve ever financed a car, you may know what a lienholder is. It’s the bank, credit union or car dealership that loaned you the money to buy the vehicle. This information is important because the lienholder, legally speaking, has ownership of your car until you pay off the loan. …
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