The omicron variant is offering more hints about what it may have in store as it spreads around the globe: A highly transmissible virus that may cause less severe disease, and one that can be slowed—but not stopped—by ...
Dec 14, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Compared to previous coronavirus variants, Omicron appears to cause less severe illness, but is more resistant to the Pfizer vaccine, researchers at South Africa's largest health insurer report.
Dec 14, 2021
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Pfizer said Tuesday that clinical trials confirmed its COVID pill—a new type of treatment that should withstand the mutations seen with the Omicron variant—drastically reduced hospitalizations and deaths among at-risk ...
Dec 14, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Booster doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine set recipients up to effectively withstand the ravages of both the Delta and Omicron variants, a group of new studies suggest.
Dec 9, 2021
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U.S. health authorities again expanded the nation's booster campaign Thursday, opening extra doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to several million 16- and 17-year-olds.
Dec 9, 2021
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Two doses of the BioNTech and Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may not be enough to protect against the Omicron strain, the companies warned Wednesday, but they stressed it was "still effective" after a third jab.
Dec 8, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Pfizer Inc. is expected to seek approval this week for emergency use of its booster shots among American teens ages 16-17.
Nov 30, 2021
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Pfizer has already started working on a version of its COVID-19 vaccine specifically targeting the new Omicron variant in case the current inoculation is not effective against the latest strain, the US drugmaker's CEO Albert ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Israel on Tuesday will begin vaccinating children aged five to 11 against COVID-19, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
Nov 19, 2021
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Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world's population.
Nov 16, 2021
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