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Top eight CNS stories for today including biotechnology giant Moderna announced its coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective; California Governor Gavin Newsom halted counties’ reopening efforts effective immediately amid a surge in virus cases; The World Health Organization is fighting a cluster of infections inside its Geneva headquarters, and more.

/ November 16, 2020
Registered Nurse Kath Olmstead prepares a blinded study experimental vaccine for COVID-19 developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. at the United Health Services facility, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Binghamton, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink

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Top eight CNS stories for today including biotechnology giant Moderna announced its coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective; California Governor Gavin Newsom halted counties’ reopening efforts effective immediately amid a surge in virus cases; The World Health Organization is fighting a cluster of infections inside its Geneva headquarters, and more.

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National

1.) Touted enthusiastically by the nation’s chief infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, the biotechnology giant Moderna announced on Monday that its vaccine for the novel coronavirus is 94.5% effective.

Registered Nurse Kath Olmstead prepares a blinded study experimental vaccine for COVID-19 developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. at the United Health Services facility, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Binghamton, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink

2.) President-elect Joe Biden said President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the national election is endangering a smooth transition necessary to ensure an effective rollout of coronavirus vaccines that many experts believe will end the pandemic. 

President-elect Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, arrives to speak about economic recovery at The Queen theater, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

3.) As it makes its reluctant exit from the White House, the Trump administration will issue a call to enterprising oil and gas developers eyeballing Alaska: the time is now to secure drilling rights in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

The Porcupine caribou herd crosses a river on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Peter Mather)

4.) Drawing alarm at the D.C. Circuit, a lawyer for the United States argued Monday that the government has the power to kill its citizens without judicial oversight when state secrets are involved.

Regional

5.) With coronavirus cases up over 50% in the last 10 days, California Governor Gavin Newsom halted counties’ reopening efforts effective immediately and said the state is prepping emergency hospitals to deal with the surge.

California Covid map as of Nov. 16, 2020.

6.) The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether the governor can declare successive emergency orders responding to the coronavirus without legislative approval.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, in Kenosha, Wis. Posts shared thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are falsely claiming that an impossible number of people cast ballots in Wisconsin. Meagan Wolfe, the state’s top elections official, addressed the social media rumors Thursday, Nov. 5, saying: “Wisconsin does not have more votes than registered voters.” (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

International

7.) Fighting a cluster of infections inside its Geneva headquarters, the World Health Organization on Monday welcomed announcements from vaccine makers saying their products appear to be highly efficient and safe but also warned against complacency.

The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

8.) Belarus saw a new round of violence on Sunday after security forces broke up peaceful protests in the capital Minsk honoring a 31-year-old man reportedly beaten to death by police earlier in the week.

Belarusian riot police block demonstrators gather to honor 31-year-old Raman Bandarenka, who died Thursday at a Minsk hospital after several hours of surgery due to serious injuries, during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Protests have rocked Belarus since the August election that official results say gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office but that opponents and some polls workers claim were manipulated. (AP Photo)
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