The stakes are high: Shunning a COVID-19 shot could derail efforts to end the pandemic—while any surprise safety problems after one hits the market could reverberate into distrust of other routine vaccines.
Lilly said it is reviewing safety data that caused federal researchers to pause a trial of the company’s COVID-19 antibody treatment in hospitalized patients. Other trials using lower doses of the drug outside the hospital will continue.
FedEx and United Parcel Service are girding for their biggest test yet in the e-commerce era, with the holiday shopping season pushed ever earlier and stretching the limits of shipping networks already strained by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New COVID-19 cases have topped 1,100 in the state’s daily report for eight straight days and have exceeded 1,000 a dozen times in the past 14 days.
The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately to give the Census Bureau time to meet a year-end deadline.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said he would announce a decision Wednesday on the mask mandate that he first issued in July. It is currently set to expire Saturday.
Absentee ballots cast in Indiana must arrive by noon on Election Day to be counted, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, throwing out a 10-day extension ordered by a judge.
Finding those higher speeds can be a challenge. While telecom operators have been rolling out 5G networks, significant boosts in speed are still uncommon in much of the world, including the United States.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he’s scheduling a procedural vote on a relief bill next week, saying aid to hard-hit businesses shouldn’t be held up by gridlock involving other rescue proposals.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. said it made the decision on recommendation of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board “out of an abundance of caution.”
Available courses through the program will be offered online and in-person, depending on the field of study. The $1 million in funding comes from the money the city received from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
Indiana on Tuesday reported 27 additional deaths from COVID-19, the highest fatality count in the daily report since Oct. 6, when 30 deaths were reported.
The monthly sales increase was the third in a row after a three-month streak of declining sales in the market brought on by the pandemic.
In the learn-from-home world, educators are encountering friction when extending regular classroom discipline and decorum into young people’s previously private spaces.
Prices for used cars and trucks are up 10.3% in the past 12 months. The September increase in used vehicle prices was the largest monthly increase since February 1969.
The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, affects the personal finances of about 1 in 5 Americans, including Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees, about 70 million people.
The pause is at least the second such hold to occur among several vaccines that have reached large-scale final tests in the United States.
The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett is grilled in 30-minute segments Tuesday by Democrats gravely opposed to President Trump’s nominee, yet virtually powerless to stop her rise.
Big Tech stocks, including Apple and Microsoft, powered much of the gains. Their businesses have proven to be practically impervious to the pandemic, unlike companies that would benefit from a strengthening economy.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett spoke about her judicial philosophy, her experience and her large family at the end of the first day of her confirmation hearings, which Senate Democrats are using to brand her as a threat to Americans’ health care during the pandemic.
