What's News: World-Wide -- WSJ
September 09 2020 - 3:02AM
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Public-health experts are increasingly calling for a shift in
thinking about Covid-19 testing, saying it is better to get fast,
frequent results that are reasonably accurate than more precise
results after dayslong delays.
Nine drugmakers said their CEOs signed a pledge to not file for
regulatory approval or authorization of their experimental Covid-19
vaccines until the shots are shown to work safely.
AstraZeneca said it paused clinical trials of an experimental
vaccine after a participant in a U.K. study had an unexplained
illness.
Senate Republicans proposed a new, smaller package of
coronavirus aid aimed at unifying the party and bolstering it
politically, as talks with Democrats remained at a standstill.
The police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and two deputy chiefs
resigned after days of protests and mounting criticism over the
death of Daniel Prude.
Powerful windstorms in California are creating more dangerous
conditions as firefighters work to contain wildfires that have
already burned a record 2.3 million acres.
The Indian and Chinese militaries accused each other of firing
warning shots in what would be the first use of guns along their
disputed border in decades.
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September 09, 2020 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)
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