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If approved, the vaccine could become the second shot to become available in the US by December.

The new results suggest that the two early vaccine candidates will be extremely effective against the coronavirus.

The highly anticipated late-stage results are the first to be announced by a pharmaceutical company conducting a coronavirus vaccine trial.

Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca will resume their coronavirus vaccine trials in the US after pauses to investigate unexplained illnesses in trial participants.

“It is absolutely not a blockbuster drug or a miracle drug,” one expert said. “We give it because we don’t have anything better.”

“Why would you test for antibodies when you’ve given someone such a high dose of antibodies?” one expert told BuzzFeed News.

The premier health agency’s update comes less than two weeks after a similar guidance was added and then deleted from its website.

“We said both sides must be heard—we haven’t taken a position yet,” the Reverend Al Sharpton said. The event was slated to occur this weekend in Harlem.

“No 6-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them,” grandmother Meralyn Kirkland said.

The Aeroflot plane made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday. Thirty-seven people survived by escaping through the plane’s emergency exits.

A Russian who offered Michael Cohen a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin was a former government official, not a weightlifter by the same name.

Eighty-one women are suing Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego, California, for secretly recording them during gynecological surgeries.

Ahead of Michael Cohen’s testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europe’s tallest tower in Moscow — and how it played out alongside Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Rudy Giuliani claims the Moscow tower was barely more than a notion. “There were no drafts. Nothing in the file.” Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News tell a different story.

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No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the first time.

Once dismissed as fringe, phage therapy is gaining traction as a last resort when antibiotics fail. It’s the subject of a new episode of the Netflix docuseries Follow This.

The open letter says that any attempt to define gender based on a person’s anatomy at birth or their genes is not grounded in science.

Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis conducted studies using psychoactive drugs on “agitated” patients without their consent.

Critics of a new Arizona law say it could set a dangerous legal precedent: defining embryos as “life” in order to chip away at abortion rights. That fight is the subject of a new episode of the BuzzFeed News series Follow This on Netflix.