Austen Hufford
@austenhufford
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Joined November 2011
The stock market's wild ride isn't just for retail investors. It's also boosting CEOs, directors, other insiders. A few sold. One could win $90M cash if the run-up lasts. My latest w/ @jacquiemcnish @saraheneedleman @maloneyfiles
https://t.co/yBKE7hQbng on @WSJ $BB $GME $FIZZ
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The recent Reddit-fueled trading in long-struggling companies has boosted the holdings of CEOs and directors, though few have reported cashing in.
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A Covid-19 vaccine from J&J was 66% effective in a late-stage trial https://t.co/A0RxbdTaaa via @WSJ
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Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s biggest health-care companies, said it would ask American regulators in early February to authorize use.
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Iris Westman had no access to social media and rarely watched television. That may be one reason she lived with remarkable serenity to the age of 115. https://t.co/E7E8HB0Xgt via @WSJ
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In an age when people are bombarded almost constantly with disturbing news and commentary, Iris Westman had no access to social media and rarely watched television. That may be one reason she lived...
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China is seeking a meeting of its top diplomat with senior Biden aides to explore a Xi/Biden summit. It plans to align discussions with Biden priorities such as pandemic and climate change. No more "we will buy more soybeans." With @bobdavis187
https://t.co/S9eUoEw1dY via @WSJ
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Beijing is pressing for a meeting of its top diplomat with senior Biden aides to explore a summit between the two nations’ leaders, highlighting China’s hopes to quickly stabilize a rocky relations...
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Mexico exonerated former Defense Minister Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos of allegations he was in the pay of drug traffickers, putting an end to a case that has roiled relations between the U.S. and Mexico
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Mexico’s attorney general’s office said it would not press charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who was arrested by the U.S. in October on charges he was in the pay of drug traffickers.
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3M, Honeywell and nearly 60 other companies have signed agreements with FEMA to work together to coordinate production and distribution medical gear and get antitrust protection
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it convened major N95 producers, distributors and buyers last week for a first meeting to discuss the mask supply chain.
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Study from Israel finds rapid vax effect: After 14d from first shot, infection rates fell 33% among 200K 60+ year-olds vaccinated vs 200K not. Of 1.7M vaccinated, just 1,127, or 0.06%, reported side effects, such as weakness, headaches, dizziness, fever, or site pain/swelling.
Israeli vaccine data suggests Covid-19 infection rates among a group of vaccine recipients began to decrease two weeks after they received the first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, offering important insights to other countries
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What's an "excess death"? More than 2.8 million people have died due to the pandemic, according to a WSJ analysis of data from 59 countries and jurisdictions, far more than the official tolls. @jon_kamp @poverberg @DanMichaelsWSJ @linds_huth
https://t.co/VhYmP29mS0 via @WSJ
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World-wide deaths are running far beyond what would have been expected without the pandemic, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows—and many of those excess deaths aren’t accounted for in official...
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More than 22 million Americans have tested positive for Covid-19. Do they still need to follow quarantine and testing regiments? How long does immunity last? The number of survivors + vaccine recipients will represent an increasingly large share of the population.
The CDC is rethinking quarantine guidance for people who have already had Covid. Here's why that's a big deal for the NBA.
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More public discussion on whether the public should be encouraged to wear higher-quality masks.
Why aren't we wearing better masks? Last April, we—19 experts―wrote paper on why cloth masks were a good stop-gap measure for COVID. It's just been published in PNAS. Great but... @jeremyhoward and I wrote about our frustration that it's still relevant! https://t.co/tsKHCdQlxr
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Ireland B.1.1.7 sequences of total assayed: week of Dec 27th: 9% week of Jan 3rd: 25% Jan 10th: 46% UK evolution https://t.co/WXfABI6PaZ How long will it take for the US to get to >40% B.1.1.7? less than 12 weeks
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If you want to see what happens when B.1.1.7 becomes the dominant strain, you can look at Ireland, now the highest new cases per capita globally
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China's Sinovac vaccine was about 50% effective, much less than initially reported but enough, public-health experts say, to be worth giving, @samanthapearson and @luciwsj report
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Results in late-stage testing of Sinovac shot were almost 30 percentage points lower than previously announced, as concerns grow over the study’s transparency.
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Govts are starting to require higher-quality face masks over basic cloth ones. The German state of Bavaria said today that it will require people to wear FFP2 masks, similar to N95 masks in the U.S., on public transit and in stores.
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The U.S. is expected to require Covid-19 Tests for international airline passengers, including from citizens. https://t.co/ZEFOGepwGR via @WSJ
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The directive expands an earlier CDC order requiring travelers on flights from the U.K. to show negative test results before boarding.
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Stanford pulls plug on the return of freshmen and sophomores to campus
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Stanford’s freshmen and sophomores will not be allowed to take on-campus classes for the winter quarter that begins Monday.
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Manufacturers are stopping production lines due to a shortage of computer chips
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A chip shortage that has disrupted vehicle production in other parts of the globe is reaching U.S. shores. Ford is planning on idling its Louisville, Ky., factory.
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Apple threatened to ban social media app Parler due content concerns. @JeffHorwitz @timkhiggins report https://t.co/4g5TYBbvZw
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Google said it acted because of “continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.” Apple also threatened to ban Parler from its app store.
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🌏🇺🇸VACCINE DATA UPDATE (Jan. 8) 💉🌏 The U.S. is inching *closer* to 1 million doses/day, and appears to be reaching some kind of (maybe) early inflection point. 🇺🇸US: 7.05M doses admin (+865k, one-day record🏅) 🌏18.9M doses (+1.4M from y'day) https://t.co/TAkCDQyoGG
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