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Paul specifically probed the executive on the company’s knowledge of myocarditis adverse reactions caused by the shots.

“Is there a higher interest or a higher incidence of myocarditis among adolescent males 16 to 24 after taking your vaccine?” Paul bluntly asked Bancel.

“First, let me say we care deeply about safety and we are working closely with the CDC and the FDA…” Bancel attempted to reply.

The senator quickly interjected on Bancel’s deflection attempt.

In congressional testimony Wednesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel unabashedly defended the company's plans to raise the US list price of its COVID-19 vaccines by more than 400 percent—despite creating the vaccine in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, receiving $1.7 billion in federal grant money for clinical development, and making 

The CEO of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, was questioned by Senator Rand Paul about his company’s knowledge of the vaccines’ myocarditis risk during a Senate Committee hearing about Covid vaccine price increases.

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At least one person was injured after a rare tornado hit a city just southeast of Los Angeles Wednesday, local officials said.

The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado “briefly touched down” in an industrial park and warehouse district in the city of Montebello and rated the tornado an EF-1 with estimated peak winds of 110 mph – the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles area since 1983.

Tanzania has confirmed eight cases of Marburg, a high-death viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, in its first-ever outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO said in a late Tuesday statement that the confirmation by Tanzania’s national public laboratory followed the death of five people in the northwest Kagera region who developed symptoms, which include fever, vomiting, bleeding and renal failure.

Don't miss the planet parade taking place at the end of March.

JupiterMercuryVenus, Uranus, and Mars are set to align in an arc formation on the nights of March 25 through 30, alongside the Moon.

Layla Jane is an 18-year-old woman who began to identify as transgender at age 11. Jane, at the time, wanted to transition to a male. Initially, doctors at Kaiser denied her any transition hormones, saying she could take them after turning 16. However, doctors changed their minds, approved her request, and performed a double mastectomy when she was 13.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory released a photo showing a massive coronal hole forming in the sun's atmosphere, ejecting a stream of fast-moving solar winds toward Earth. 

"The current coronal hole, the big one right now, is about 300,000 to 400,000 kilometers across," Alex Young, the associate director for science at NASA Goddard's Heliophysics Science Division, told Bussiness Insider. He said, "that's about 20-30 Earths lined up back-to-back." 

Surprising no one, a new report from Pew finds that 56.3 percent of white women between the ages of 18 and 29 who claim to be liberal have been diagnosed with a mental disorder compared to only 27.3 percent of conservative women of that age group.

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