The Morning Dispatch: Vaccine in Sight, but Trouble Ahead

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Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • The United States confirmed 49,951 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday per the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard, with 5.2 percent of the 962,806 tests reported coming back positive. An additional 512 deaths were attributed to the virus on Sunday, bringing the pandemic’s American death toll to 219,669.

  • Thousands attended demonstrations in France over the weekend in solidarity with Samuel Paty, a schoolteacher who was beheaded in the street by an apparent Islamic extremist on Friday.* During a lesson for his students on freedom of expression, Paty had displayed caricatures of the prophet Muhammed from Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine whose Paris headquarters was attacked in 2015. 

  • Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla announced on Friday the pharmaceutical giant will not apply for emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine until the third week of November at the earliest. “Safety is, and will remain, our number one priority,” he wrote.

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