Vaccination
Switzerland doubles Pfizer COVID jabs order
Switzerland said on Tuesday it had bought an additional three million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, doubling the number on order to six million.
Mar 10, 2021
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Health
Latest research delineates the effectiveness of 'quitlines' for smoking cessation
While cigarette smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S., the evidence base for cessation support has revealed that telephone call centers, or 'quitlines,' have been ...
Mar 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Thailand to cut hotel quarantine times
Thailand will slash mandatory hotel quarantine times for most travellers starting in April, the health minister announced Monday, with most vaccinated people facing just a week in isolation.
Mar 8, 2021
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Vaccination
EU chief warns bloc could halt more vaccine exports
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned on Monday that the bloc could halt further exports of the coronavirus vaccine, after Italy stopped a shipment to Australia.
Mar 8, 2021
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Vaccination
EU to get 100 mn vaccine doses per month from April: von der Leyen
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Monday she expects the bloc to receive 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines every month from April, giving a boost to Europe's stuttering inoculation campaign.
Mar 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID vaccines: How to make sense of reports on their effectiveness
As a middling but competent clinician-scientist, I feel desperately sorry for the general public trying to make head or tail of some of the scientific discussions on the pandemic right now.
Mar 2, 2021
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Novavax hopes to file for US vaccine approval in 2nd quarter of 2021
US biotech company Novavax said Monday it hopes to file for British approval of its COVID-19 vaccine at the start of the second quarter of 2021, and to do the same soon after in the United States.
Mar 2, 2021
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Health
AstraZeneca EU supply chain shortfall continues in second quarter
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday its EU supply chains would only be able to deliver half of an expected supply of Covid-19 vaccines to the bloc in the second quarter—but that it would look to make up the shortfall ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Vaccination
EU chief upbeat as AstraZeneca flags supply chain issue
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen insisted Wednesday that problems dogging vaccine supplies to the EU can be resolved, after AstraZeneca said it could deliver only half of its expected amount in the second quarter.
Feb 24, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression risk doubled for those who send photos daily during the second wave of COVID-19
During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of depression more than doubled among those who share photos of themselves or their close relations (including their pets) on social media on a daily basis, according ...
Feb 17, 2021
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