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Georgia State looks to boost vaccine rate among refugees

Jun. 26, 2021 11:09 AM EDT
CLARKSTON, Ga. (AP) — Researchers at Georgia State University will use a $500,000 grant to try to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among refugees and other...

COVID-19 vaccine creators win prestigious Spanish prize

Jun. 23, 2021 08:32 AM EDT
MADRID (AP) — Seven researchers whose work contributed to designing COVID-19 vaccines have won Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias award for scientific...

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., rush to the chamber for votes ahead of the approaching Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Senate Republicans are ready to deploy the filibuster to block a commission on the Jan. 6 insurrection, shattering chances for a bipartisan probe of the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and reviving pressure to do away with the procedural tactic that critics say has lost its purpose. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate eyes R&D bill to counter China, bolster manufacturing

By Lisa Mascaro May. 27, 2021 06:54 PM EDT

WVU receives grant to study pandemic-era tutoring

Mar. 08, 2021 04:15 AM EST
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University will get a $307,000 grant to study best practices for online tutoring in science, technology, engineering and...

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson And Arijeta Lajka Feb. 26, 2021 02:49 PM EST

Security personnel move a barrier to clear the way for the World Health Organization team as they depart from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital after a field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
WHO team visits 2nd Wuhan hospital in virus investigation

By Emily Wang Fujiyama And Zen Soo Jan. 29, 2021 10:27 PM EST

Marion Koopmans of the World Health Organization team of researchers looks out from a car during a field trip in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to start searching for clues into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early virus patients

By Emily Wang Fujiyama Jan. 28, 2021 10:25 PM EST

President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Maria Zuber speaks during an event at The Queen theater, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Biden says his advisers will lead with 'science and truth'

By Bill Barrow And Seth Borenstein Jan. 16, 2021 04:49 PM EST

FILE - Tyler Perry poses at the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta on Oct. 5, 2019. Perry and the Motion Picture and Television Fund are being honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday. Perry and the MPTF will receive their Oscar statuettes at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Invision/AP, File)
Tyler Perry and MPTF to get humanitarian award at Oscars

By Lindsey Bahr Jan. 14, 2021 02:00 PM EST

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team arrive at the airport in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins

By Sam Mcneil And Huizhong Wu Jan. 13, 2021 10:54 PM EST

A worker wearing a mask peeps out behind construction barrier with a notice depicting a bat and advocating for people not to eat wild animals at the airport in Kunming in southern China's Yunnan province on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. More than a year since the first known person was infected with the coronavirus, an Associated Press investigation has found the Chinese government is strictly controlling all research into its origins, clamping down on some while actively promoting theories that it could have come from outside China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng And Sam Mcneil Dec. 30, 2020 12:39 AM EST

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announces its top awards

Nov. 23, 2020 04:34 AM EST
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has presented its top science award to a researcher who developed a quantum computing code. ...

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump, center, points as he prepares to answer question after speaking about the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence, Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams listen. Public health officials were already warning Americans about the need to prepare for the coronavirus threat in early February when President Donald Trump called it “deadly stuff” in a private conversation that has only now has come to light. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Democrats to probe whether officials meddled with virus data

By Mary Clare Jalonick Sep. 14, 2020 05:45 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 23, 2020, file photo Elizabeth Santoro, a medic with the Minnesota Air National Guard 133rd Medical Group, administers a free COVID-19 test at the Minneapolis Armory in Minneapolis. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. Others, like Minnesota, were slow to do so. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, File)
Politics slows flow of US virus funds to local public health

By Michelle R. Smith, Lauren Weber, Hannah Recht And Laura Ungar Aug. 17, 2020 12:52 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020 file photo, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dr. Robert Kadlec testifies before a Senate Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the coronavirus on Capitol Hill in Washington. Concerns from federal scientists about the proposal of Pepcid to treat COVID-19 were ignored, according to government records and a complaint from Rick Bright, former director of the government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Kadlec oversees the agency, and wanted the Pepcid contract approved. Fast. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Pepcid as a virus remedy? Trump admin's $21M gamble fizzled

By Richard Lardner And Jason Dearen Jul. 23, 2020 01:15 PM EDT

John Burkhardt, left, senior vice president of drug safety R&D and head of the Pfizer Groton site speaks at a press conference at Pfizer Groton on the companies research to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, as Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont stands by to answer questions Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Groton, Conn. The federal government has agreed to pay nearly $2 billion for 100 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the U.S. drugmaker and its German partner BioNTech. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
Pfizer's CT scientists playing key role in vaccine effort

By Susan Haigh Jul. 22, 2020 03:47 PM EDT

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a event about protecting seniors, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump speculates that China released virus in lab 'mistake'

By Zeke Miller Apr. 30, 2020 09:52 AM EDT

Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase gives an update on the COVID-19 outbreak in the state as New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, listens during a news conference in the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool)
Virus forecast model from US defense team draws attention

By Morgan Lee Apr. 20, 2020 06:23 PM EDT