As President Trump pushes for a coronavirus vaccine before the November election, one major vaccine trial has been halted after a participant developed symptoms of a “potentially unexplained illness.” After the British participant fell ill, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford paused human trials to evaluate whether the person’s condition could be related to the vaccine.
Trump said Friday that he believes a vaccine will be available by October, but for that to happen, the Food and Drug Administration would have to use emergency powers to clear the vaccine before it could be formally approved, which has been a fraught topic among experts and policymakers.
Long, medium and short - we won't see a vaccine before 2021 (probably - fingers crossed - weirder things have happened - but no).
Other stuff:
- Schools are still battling over whether to let students return to classrooms after the unofficial end of summer on Tuesday. A judge in Iowa ruled that the Des Moines public schools must reopen classroom doors to children for face-to-face instruction to comply with a statewide mandate, despite surges in coronavirus cases in the city.
- With the number of 18- to 29-year-old Americans living with their parents rising from 47 to 52 percent between February and July, according to the Pew Research Center, the largest number of young people have returned home since the Great Depression.
- Ontario paused its reopening plans for four weeks amid a coronavirus case spike in Canada. The announcement came as children in Canada’s most populous province returned to school on Tuesday.
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a new, slimmed-down coronavirus relief bill that would spend $500 billion on small businesses, enhanced unemployment insurance, child care, the post office, coronavirus testing and schools. McConnell said he expects a vote on the bill later this week, but it would need unlikely support from Senate Democrats to pass.
- The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally could cause as many as 266,000 coronavirus cases, according to researchers at the San Diego State University’s Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies who modeled the “worst-case scenario.” The event in South Dakota last month packed 460,000 people in proximity for 10 days, with few participants wearing masks or social distancing.
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