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Evening Briefing: A new vaccine, with caveats

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Plus Wall Street's worst week since October and Sundance from home. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story January 29, 2021 Your Friday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and Jeremiah M. Bogert, Jr. Good evening. Here's the latest. Cameron Pollack for The New York Times 1. Johnson & Johnson announced that its one-dose vaccine provided strong protection against Covid-19 in clinical trials. But the results came with a significant cautionary note : The vaccine's efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the U.S. to 57 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant is driving most cases. The company said it planned to apply for emergency authorization of the vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration as soon as next week, putting it on track to receive clearance later in February. The variant from South Africa, B.1.351, may also blunt the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax. It has spread to

Daily Skimm: Are we good guys or bad guys?

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Skimm'd while finishing up the How to Skimm Your Life Challenge January 29, 2021 Read in Browser Skimm'd while finishing up the How to Skimm Your Life Challenge Quote of the Day "Lovely to have all these new followers" – The World Wide Robin Hood Society in Nottingham, UK, after its unsuspected rise to fame. They Sherwood love to keep it going. Game, Stopped The Story GameStop is taking the stock market by storm . This is so over my head. We're here to help. First, a brief history: Everyone's favorite video game retailer went public in 2002 . But being a brick-and-mortar shop in a digital world isn't easy, and