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Actual Study Start Date: April 29, 2020 Estimated Primary Completion Date: May 2, 2023 Talk about cutting short..... https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728?cond=rna+vaccine+candidate&draw=2&rank=1

Over a dozen potential COVID-19 vaccines are currently under development that could be candidates for a Trump administration program to fast-track for widespread inoculation by January 2021, senior officials within the administration told NBC News. The program, known as "Operation Warp Speed" whittled down 14 candidates from a pool 93 potential vaccines several weeks ago. According to officials, those 14 vaccine candidates will undergo testing to further whittle down the number of vaccines to six or eight. This batch of candidates will make it to next rounds of clinical trials. From there, health experts are looking to weed out faulty...

PARIS (AFP) – France's President Nicolas Sarkozy was taken to hospital on Sunday after falling ill while exercising, his office told AFP. The 54-year-old leader was seen immediately by a doctor and underwent medical tests after falling ill, a statement from the Elysee Palace said. Later, officials in his office said Sarkozy had been taken to hospital after suffering some kind of problem while exercising at La Lanterne, his weekend retreat near the Palace of Versailles outside Paris. He was thought to have been taken to the Val de Grace military hospital, a well-placed source said. A military helicopter was...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The rushed drafting of Iraq's new constitution has deepened sectarian rifts and is likely to fuel the Sunni-led insurgency and hasten the country's violent break up, a leading think-tank said. "Instead of healing the growing divisions between Iraq's three principal communities -- Shiites, Kurds and Sunni Arabs -- a rushed constitutional process has deepened rifts and hardened feelings," the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report. Iraq "appears to be heading toward de facto partition and full-scale civil war" said the report, unless Washington makes "a determined effort to broker a true compromise between Shiites, Kurds...