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Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Signs Of Success In Preliminary Study

Here’s some positive news to kick off your week. On Monday, Drugmaker Moderna Inc. released the first human results from trials of its coronavirus vaccine.

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According to WSJ.com, Moderna said that its experimental coronavirus vaccine induced immune responses in some of the healthy volunteers who were vaccinated in a clinical study, and the shots were generally safe and well-tolerated. The study results provide a positive sign about its capabilities to protect folks against the novel coronavirus.

The data suggest the vaccine — which code name is mRNA-1273, “has a high probability to provide protection from Covid-19 disease in humans,” Moderna Chief Executive Stephane Bancel said on a conference call this Monday morning. However, it was made clear that these results are just preliminary and only for a portion of the study participants. Now, if it proves to work safely in subsequent testing, the company’s vaccine could be ready for emergency use as early as the fall.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave the biotech permission to begin the second stage of testing, the news site reports. But, it was also noted that many vaccines fail to pass, even after showing positive signs in early testing.

Finding an effective coronavirus vaccine has been a challenge for the last couple of weeks. It’s become a global priority in ending the pandemic and the US government leaders have put forward a quick timeline to have one by the end of 2020. This usually takes several years to develop a successful vaccine.

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Georgia Man Charged For Having Sex With A Dead Woman In Public

A man is in police custody and has been charged for allegedly having sex with a dead woman outside a homeless shelter in Georgia.

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According to the Daily Mail, the incident happened Sunday morning. Bibb County officers responding to a 911 call were dispatched to the 100 block of Walnut Street, following reports that two people were having sex on the front steps of the property. From there, deputies say they discovered 55-year-old Kenny Obryn Whitehead outside the Daybreak Resource Center having sex with the woman.

Cops then told Whitehead to put on his clothes on before realizing that the woman was not alive. Emergency services told officials that she “had been deceased for some time.” According to Fox5 Atlanta, officers are now currently investigating the woman’s cause of death though they do not suspect foul play. They are not going releasing the identity of the woman until next of kin have been informed of her death. 

As for Whitehead, he has been charged with necrophilia and is being held without bond. 
Daily Mail reports that his crime carries a maximum prison sentence of up to two years behind bars. 

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Gregory McMichael Leaked Viral Video Of Ahmaud Arbery Shooting

Channel 2 Action News has confirmed that the man who leaked the viral clip of the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is one of the murder suspects.

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Investigative reporter Mark Winne says that Greg McMichael leaked the video to a radio station two months ago, which caught national attention and later landed him in jail on murder charges with his son Travis McMichael. Apparently, he thought leaking the footage would make him and his son Travis look better and also “wanted to ease rising racial tensions in the South Georgia community of Satilla Shores,” but didn’t elaborate on how it would.

As we previously reported, the video shows Greg standing in the back of a pickup truck as his son confronts and opens fire on the jogger with a shotgun. This shocking plot twist was revealed Friday by Alan Tucker, a Brunswick attorney who had informally consulted with the suspects. Tucker told the news site that leaking the video, which had been shot from a second vehicle by a friend of the father and son, was all Greg McMichael’s idea.

As WSBTV notes, the lawyer said Greg McMichael brought the video and others, to his office for help getting it downloaded so it could be sent to local radio station WGIG in Brunswick. Tucker told WSB-TV he also thought leaking the video would help ease racial tensions: “I didn’t want the neighborhood to become a Ferguson,” Tucker told the news site.

However, that clearly backfired. The two men were eventually arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault. Arbery was just 25 years old.

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