Moderna’s Stock Is on a Roll. Now It Has to Deliver a New Booster.

Moderna shares have been on a tear as a rise in Covid-19 cases in the U.S., and the advent of updated vaccine boosters, have built the case that the company can benefit for longer from selling its shots.

“We don’t actually know what will be important in the fall, and there’s no way to know,” says Dr. Eric Rubin, a member of the FDA’s vaccines advisory committee and the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. “The FDA is sort of rolling the dice on the idea that it might be a better match.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/moderna-stock-vaccine-booster-fda-51657919393

NEW YORK – New York City is approaching 500 confirmed monkeypox cases and is considered the epicenter of the United States' outbreak.

The health commissioner expects the number to grow significantly as testing ramps up.

Monitors kept the long line outside Aviation High School in Queens moving, as the three pop-up clinics vaccinated 4,200 New Yorkers for the disease.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/monkeypox-vaccine-mass-vaccination-sites-brooklyn-queens-the-bronx/

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Researchers say Thai pro-democracy activists hit by spyware

BANGKOK (AP) — Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored spyware.

"…targeted by an unnamed government entity or entities for surveillance with Pegasus, a spyware produced by the Israeli-based cybersecurity company NSO Group."

https://apnews.com/article/technology-software-spyware-democracy-31b877b0f2d5e725460ad65c60db9e04

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

Fauci Issues Warning on Monkeypox in US

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, signaled that more resources will be dedicated to monkeypox and said that the federal government needs to take it “seriously,” as cases have risen across the world.

The latest U.S. data show the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has tracked at least 1,814 probable or confirmed cases across the country as of July 15.

“We don’t know the scope and the potential of it yet, but we have to act like it will have the capability of spreading much more widely than it’s spreading right now,” Fauci told CNN.

The U.N. health agency last week said it was aware of 9,200 cases in 63 countries.

On July 15, the WHO announced it will reconvene its expert committee on July 21.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-issues-warning-on-monkeypox-in-us_4603282.html