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Merck, which previously made an Ebola vaccine, had been seen as a serious contender in the worldwide race to come up with an answer to COVID-19. (Image credit: Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Just a day earlier, rescuers hauled up 11 survivors one by one in baskets from the mine they were trapped in for two weeks in Qixia, a city in China's eastern Shandong province.

The vaccine yields fewer antibodies against the variant discovered in South Africa, and so the company plans to test an alternate version.

The spray -- developed by scientists at the University of Birmingham -- prevents infection by capturing the bug in the nose and covering it in a coating from which it cannot escape.

Merck is shutting down development of its coronavirus vaccines after clinical research produced disappointing results, the drugmaker said Monday. Early-stage studies found that Merck’s two experimental shots produced immune responses that were “inferior”

Frank Ntilikina is finally out of the trainer’s room, but he’ll have to wait a little longer to get back on the court. For the first time since Dec. 29, when he sprained his right knee against the Cavaliers, Ntilikina was available off the bench Sunday