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Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • The United States confirmed 56,105 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, with 8.1 percent of the 695,586 tests reported coming back positive. An additional 1,383 deaths were attributed to the virus on Tuesday, bringing the pandemic’s American death toll to 156,771.

  • A massive explosion in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killed at least 70 people yesterday, injuring thousands more.

  • Results from an early trial showed that a COVID-19 vaccine from biotech company Novavax sparked the development of neutralizing antibodies, which may help prevent coronavirus infection, in each of the 130 volunteers in the study. About 80 percent participants experienced some sort of mild side effects—tenderness at injection site, headaches, fatigue—and Novavax plans to begin Phase 3 trials later this fall.

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