The US economy is powering through Delta
“Delta? What Delta?”
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COVID-19
SAS and UNC-Chapel Hill will partner to prevent infectious disease threats from turning into pandemic
SAS is partnering with researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill to prepare to prevent future infectious diseases from turning into a pandemic like COVID-19, the organizations announced this week.
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Raleigh law firm: Biden Administration to require COVID-19 vaccinations for large employers
President Biden announced at a press conference at 5:00 p.m. on September 9, 2021, a new, six-pronged national strategy to combat COVID-19 while keeping businesses and schools open. What next?
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To require vaccines? Google, Facebook will, Apple may, other Triangle firms waiting
Companies across the Triangle are on the horns of a dilemma: What to do about unvaccinated workers and whether to push ahead with return-to-office policies. As many are still debating what to do, a big name – Google – is reacting to the COVID “D” variant surge with a vaccine requirement. And Apple is reportedly requiring vaccinations.
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Vaccine inequality is costing rich countries tens of billions in lost output
Vaccine inequity is undermining a “truly global economic recovery” from Covid-19, according to data released Thursday by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Oxford.
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UNC will lead $15M COVID-19 variant surveillance program in NC
The $15 million surveillance program will collect, sequence, and share data on SARS-CoV-2 samples from across the state, providing real-time information on variants circulating in North Carolina.
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Durham biopharma lands $7M to develop ‘muco-trapping’ antibody platform
Inhalon Biopharma was awarded a $7 million contract, under which it will conduct a Phase 1/2a study to determine whether its “muco-trapping” technology can treat COVID-19.
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Software company PeraHealth wins BARDA contract to assist hospitals with COVID-19 triage
After inking a cost-sharing contract with an authority of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Charlotte’s PeraHealth will make its machine learning software available to U.S. hospitals to assist in triaging COVID-19 patients.
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Tourism in North Carolina critical part of post-COVID recovery, finds report
A new report finds that the tourism industry is critical to a post-COVID recovery, as industry employment dropped more than 25 percent in 2020 and revenue generated from tourism dropped more than 25 percent in 2020 as well.
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