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“I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for #COVID19,” Bourla wrote. “I am thankful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am isolating and have started a course of Paxlovid.”He said that he is “confident I will have a speedy recovery,” due to how far the world has come in efforts to battle the coronavirus and expressed gratitude for his colleagues who worked to make vaccines and treatments available. Pfizer shared the same information in a company statement. Pfizer’s vaccine was the…
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in a town located southeast of Albany, New York have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election. The warehouse, with the codename ALB1, is hoping to join the Amazon Labor Union, which successfully convinced majority of workers at the company’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island to vote in favor of unionizing earlier this year. An NLRB spokesperson told CNBC that the agency’s office in Buffalo is currently verifying whether the group has truly met the minimum number of signatures needed to hold an election. Unions typically need to…
Japanese fans of the sci-fi hit “Stranger Things” can chow down on demonic pasta and rock out to retro 1980s tunes at a pop-up cafe inspired by the Netflix horror drama.The shop, a partnership with local restaurant chain Pronto Corp, recently extended its run in the fashionable Shibuya district of Tokyo several months amid overwhelming demand. “Stranger Things” has remained one of the streamer’s top 10 shows in Japan since the release of its fourth season in May.The interior has replicas of shops and sets from the show, set in fictional U.S. town of Hawkins, Indiana, along with its dark-mirror…
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Placeholder while article actions loadOne of the provisions of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act is a small 1% tax on stock buybacks. The idea of a tax on buybacks is a bipartisan issue that has been around for a while. Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio in 2019 proposed a plan to tax buybacks on equal footing with dividends, but that didn’t go anywhere.The tax, however, is currently small enough that it is unlikely to deter buybacks or raise much in the way of revenue for the federal government. Considering that about $850 billion in buybacks were conducted in 2021, such…
Those are the nights you crawl into bed early and beg for sleep — all too often in vain.”This has happened to me many times unfortunately,” said Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “If you’re unable to fall asleep, don’t worry about it. It will not help.”Sleep specialist Dr. Raj Dasgupta has similar guidance.”My general advice is ‘don’t force it’ because that worry about getting those zzz’s will begin to ruminate in your mind, making matters worse,” said Dasgupta, an associate professor of clinical medicine…
Two groups of rightwing sheriffs that echo some of Donald Trump’s false claims about widespread voting fraud in 2020 are ramping up drives to monitor this year’s elections for potential voting and election fraud.The two Arizona-led groups together boast over 350 sheriffs as members nationwide, and have forged various ties with Texas-based True the Vote, which has a history of making unverified claims of voting fraud, spurring watchdogs and law enforcement veterans to voice alarms of looming threats to voting rights and election workers.The burgeoning sheriffs’ drive to investigate so-called voting fraud was evident at a secretive Arizona meeting on…
How to make a small room look bigger:1. Paint White is arguably the best colour for a small room. The brightness helps blend together the walls and ceilings which can help remove the boxy feel that small rooms often have. White is reflective and makes any room feel light and airy, perfect for opening up a small space.If you do want some colour in the room, you can also create the illusion of height by painting the wall colour up to about 10cm below the ceiling, or up to the bottom of the cornice, then everything above this is painted white. The extra…
TikTok is the latest social platform to preview its strategy for fighting election misinformation ahead of the November midterms. The company is once again promoting its in-app Elections Center, which connects users with voting resources and information about their local races. TikTok says a link to the Elections Center will appear on all content related to the midterms, as well as all videos from candidates, political parties and official government accounts. The company will also continue to work with third-party fact checkers to debunk false claims and warn users when a video contains unverified information. Videos with claims that are…
(CNN) — The votes are in. The Cincinnati Zoo’s bouncing baby hippo is named Fritz.Choosing the name of Fiona’s little brother, born August 3, was a group effort.The zoo received more than 90,000 name suggestions from members of the public in every US state and more than 60 countries, according to a press release from the zoo. Two finalist names were chosen by the zoo before opening it up to a vote. The finalists were Fritz and Ferguson. Fritz raked in 56% of the more than 223,000 votes, the zoo said.”We would have been happy with either name, but we…