Vaccination
Should everyone get a COVID booster? Experts divided
The United States is set to become the latest country to widen COVID booster eligibility beyond the immunocompromised, elderly and high risk.
Nov 18, 2021
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Vaccination
Covax hits 500 mn COVID-19 vaccine dose deliveries
The Covax scheme aimed at equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines has now delivered more than 500 million doses around the world, figures showed Wednesday.
Nov 17, 2021
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Medical economics
Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna making $1,000 profit every second: analysis
Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful COVID-19 vaccines while the world's poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis.
Nov 16, 2021
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Vaccination
WHO restarts evaluation of Russian COVID-19 shot
The World Health Organization said Friday it had "restarted" a process that could grant emergency authorisation for the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, after several months in limbo.
Nov 12, 2021
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Vaccination
African effort to replicate mRNA vaccine targets disparities
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South ...
Oct 24, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Noted COVID-19 researchers reminde that poor countries must be vaccinated to end pandemic
Two well-known vaccine researchers, Dame Sarah Gilbert, one of the co-developers of the Oxford vaccine and Richard Hatchett, head of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, have issued a reminder to the world ...
Vaccination
Covax eyes vaccines for just 20% of people in poor nations in 2021
The vaccine-sharing facility Covax said Wednesday it should be able to provide COVID jabs to no more than 20 percent of people in poorer countries this year, far fewer than anticipated.
Sep 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Factfile: The Marburg virus, Ebola's deadly cousin
Guinea has recorded the first known case of Marburg virus, a lethal cousin to Ebola, the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Aug 10, 2021
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Vaccination
Covax expecting 250 mn donated doses in 6-8 weeks: WHO
Covax is expecting to receive 250 million donated COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next six to eight weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Jul 28, 2021
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Pfizer raises 2021 outlook on surging COVID-19 vaccine sales
Pfizer lifted its annual revenue and profit projections Wednesday on surging demand for COVID-19 vaccine doses as executives amplified their case for booster shots amid the latest wave of infections.
Jul 28, 2021
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