The world’s pandemic exit plan hits a snag
3 years, 11 months ago

The world’s pandemic exit plan hits a snag

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in the February 9 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. CNN — A group of experts will present their recommendations to the World Health Organization on Tuesday on how countries should be using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, following a study that suggested it offered limited protection against a variant first identified in South Africa. The EU’s unedifying spat with the United Kingdom and drugmaker AstraZeneca over limited supplies of Covid-19 vaccines has dragged von der Leyen and her management style into the spotlight. “What I can tell you is, it’s going to be guided by data, by science, by medicine, and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out.” The discussion follows a CDC rule that went into effect at the end of January, requiring negative Covid-19 tests for international travelers, US citizens and residents entering the United States. TODAY’S PODCAST “I think it’s really important that we start to advocate and reframe the concept of trying to protect pregnant women from research and really revisit that concept, as maybe we can better protect pregnant women by allowing them to participate in research and by generating data within the safe confines of a clinical trial.” — Dr. Emily S. Miller, obstetrician and member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s COVID-19 task force CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with Dr. Miller about whether pregnant women should get a Covid-19 vaccine.

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A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS. But will it get to everyone who needs it?
1 month, 1 week ago

A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS. But will it get to everyone who needs it?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a statement, Gilead said it has “an ongoing …

‘Still not over’: WHO cautions of COVID-19 threat ahead of summer holidays after US President Joe Biden tests positive
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Still not over’: WHO cautions of COVID-19 threat ahead of summer holidays after US President Joe Biden tests positive

Live Mint  

New Delhi: With US President Joe Biden testing positive for COVID-19 before the Presidential elections, the World Health Organisation has warned the public that Covid is still not over. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a warning, stating that vaccination rates among health professionals and the over-60s—two demographics most at risk of dying from COVID—are alarmingly falling. Globally, 9.8 million …

African and European leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities
6 months, 2 weeks ago

African and European leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities

LA Times  

European and African leaders gather at the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator conference in Paris on June 20, 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron joined several African leaders Thursday to kick off a planned $1-billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaping inequalities in access to them. Many African leaders and advocacy groups say …

Covishield Side Effects: Doctors' Group Urges Govt to Review All Covid Vaccines
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Covishield Side Effects: Doctors' Group Urges Govt to Review All Covid Vaccines

News 18  

In the wake of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca admitting in a UK court that its Covid vaccine can cause blood clots in rare cases, a group of doctors on Thursday expressed deep concern over the safety of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. At a press conference, the doctors, under the banner of the Awaken India Movement, …

AstraZeneca withdraws Covishield pointing to low demand, but did rare side effects also play a role?
8 months ago

AstraZeneca withdraws Covishield pointing to low demand, but did rare side effects also play a role?

The Hindu  

Published : May 09, 2024 13:21 IST - 3 MINS READ The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has reportedly withdrawn its COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria, also known as Covishield, worldwide, citing commercial reasons for the decision. Vaxzevria saved millions of lives AstraZeneca, who developed the vaccine with Oxford University, said it was “incredibly proud of the role Vaxzevria played in ending the global …

After AstraZeneca covid-19 vax recall worldwide, Serum says it stopped manufacturing jabs in Dec 2021
8 months ago

After AstraZeneca covid-19 vax recall worldwide, Serum says it stopped manufacturing jabs in Dec 2021

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Serum Institute of India on Wednesday said it has stopped making and supplying covid-19 vaccine Covishield after AstraZeneca, the British drugmaker that helped develop the vaccine, announced it too was withdrawing its version of the jab worldwide. The development follows the launch of a class action suit in the UK over allegations that the UK vaccine caused …

Stopped manufacturing Covishield since December 2021, says Serum Institute
8 months ago

Stopped manufacturing Covishield since December 2021, says Serum Institute

Hindustan Times  

Pune-based Serum Institute of India stopped manufacturing its anti-Covid-19 vaccine Covishield in 2021, according to a statement issued by the company on Wednesday after British-Swedish pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca announced it was withdrawing its vaccine against Covid, Vaxzevria, due to “commercial reasons” as demand for it decreased globally. Consequently, since December 2021, we have stopped the manufacturing and supply of additional …

AstraZeneca pulls its COVID-19 vaccine from the European market
8 months ago

AstraZeneca pulls its COVID-19 vaccine from the European market

Associated Press  

LONDON — The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator. In an update on the European Medicines Agency’s website Wednesday, the regulator said that the approval for AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria had been withdrawn “at the request of the marketing authorization holder.” AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was first given …

AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine citing a decline in demand
8 months ago

AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine citing a decline in demand

ABC  

In short: Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has started a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, which has not been available in Australia since March 2023. Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has started a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, which has not been available in Australia since March 2023. AstraZeneca has initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to …

As AstraZeneca announces vaccine withdrawal, Serum Institute says stopped Covishield in 2021
8 months ago

As AstraZeneca announces vaccine withdrawal, Serum Institute says stopped Covishield in 2021

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Days after AstraZeneca admitted for the first time in court documents that their Covid-19 vaccine can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, the British pharma giant announced that they are withdrawing it globally. In its statement, AstraZeneca said, "As multiple, variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been developed, there is a surplus of available updated vaccines. According to …

AstraZeneca removes its Covid vaccine worldwide after rare and dangerous side effect linked to 80 deaths in Britain was admitted in court papers
8 months ago

AstraZeneca removes its Covid vaccine worldwide after rare and dangerous side effect linked to 80 deaths in Britain was admitted in court papers

Daily Mail  

AstraZeneca is removing its Covid vaccine worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect. The vaccine, once heralded as a 'triumph for British science', has come under intense scrutiny in recent months for a very rare side effect causing blood clots and low blood platelet counts. The AstraZeneca jab was the …

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns
8 months ago

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns

The Hindu  

There are things we know that we don’t know. This risk was identified and flagged back in 2021; packaging was modified to insert information associated with the side effects; even the WHO wrote about it first in May 2021 and then in 2023.Read Bindu Shajan Perapaddan’s report on the rare vaccine side-effect is “no secret” and they are “well aware …

AstraZeneca reaffirms Covid vaccine safety amid rare side effect concerns
8 months, 1 week ago

AstraZeneca reaffirms Covid vaccine safety amid rare side effect concerns

India TV News  

In response to recent concerns regarding potential rare side effects associated with the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical company has underscored its unwavering commitment to patient safety while affirming the vaccine's overall safety profile. This comes in the wake of a recent admission by AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical company, that its Covid vaccine Covishield and Vaxzevria "can, in very rare cases, …

Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries — mostly in Europe and the Americas …

EU countries destroyed €4 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines, reveals research
1 year ago

EU countries destroyed €4 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines, reveals research

Firstpost  

Governments, including the EU’s second-most populous country France, have been reluctant to reveal the scale of the waste, but it is certain that most EU nations have resorted to wasting doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, once a much sought after commodity Nearly 215 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have since …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The article suggests that these …

Explained | Can vaccine distribution be made fairer?
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained | Can vaccine distribution be made fairer?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity, a joint effort by the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization and the University of Oxford with cooperation across the UN system, has put out recent data that justifies the vexatious core of the vaccine distribution programme: Only one in four people has been vaccinated with at least …

Covid-19 vaccination campaign held back by poor planning, safety board finds
2 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 vaccination campaign held back by poor planning, safety board finds

Dutch News  

The Dutch vaccination programme against Covid-19 was held back because the government’s initial plan was too reliant on family doctors, a report by the safety council has concluded. In the second of three reports into the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, the OVV said preparations to set up vaccination centres through the local health board network only started in …

Covid-19 vaccination campaign held back by poor planning, safety board finds
2 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 vaccination campaign held back by poor planning, safety board finds

Dutch News  

The Dutch vaccination programme against Covid-19 was held back because the government’s initial plan was too reliant on family doctors, a report by the safety council has concluded. In the second of three reports into the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, the OVV said preparations to set up vaccination centres through the local health board network only started in …

Husband and wife team behind Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot insist pandemic ISN'T over
2 years, 3 months ago

Husband and wife team behind Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot insist pandemic ISN'T over

Daily Mail  

The husband-and-wife duo behind BioNTech, the German firm that joined Pfizer to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine, have unveiled plans for yet another new virus shot while warning that COVID isn't even close to being over. Dr. Ugur Sahin and Dr. Ozlem Tureci founded BioNTech in 2008 and count the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as one of their major investors …

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic
2 years, 3 months ago

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic

Live Mint  

Global vaccine alliance GAVI has set up financial instruments that will allow the group to immediately access pledged donor funding if it needs to buy vaccines for future pandemics, Chief Executive Seth Berkley told Reuters. Berkley said that in 2020 and 2021, GAVI was limited in its ability to buy COVID-19 vaccines because even though donors had committed $2.4 billion, …

WHO says COVID end is ‘in sight,’ deaths at lowest level since March 2020
2 years, 3 months ago

WHO says COVID end is ‘in sight,’ deaths at lowest level since March 2020

LA Times  

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long pandemic. “Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap all the rewards of our hard work.” In …

Is there enough monkeypox vaccine to go around? Maybe yes, more likely no
2 years, 4 months ago

Is there enough monkeypox vaccine to go around? Maybe yes, more likely no

NPR  

Is there enough monkeypox vaccine to go around? 2) Supply is also limited In an email, a spokesperson for Bavarian Nordic told NPR that the company has the capacity to produce 30 to 40 million doses of JYNNEOS annually. "At least from what's known about Bavarian Nordic's deliveries, they are significantly lower than we would expect" if the company really …

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19
2 years, 5 months ago

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19

The Hindu  

Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning. Yet while monkeypox is much harder to spread than COVID-19, experts warn that if …

COVID-19 changing, not over yet; tough to analyse future emerging variants: WHO
2 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 changing, not over yet; tough to analyse future emerging variants: WHO

India TV News  

Highlights COVID19, driven by BA.4 and BA.5, cases are on the rise in 110 countries, the WHO said This has caused the overall global cases to increase by 20 per cent, it said Health workers and older people in lower-income countries remain unvaccinated, the WHO expressed COVID-19 pandemic is changing, but is not over yet, the World Health Organisation said …

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for fall
2 years, 6 months ago

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for fall

Associated Press  

At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants. Their combination shots, what scientists call “bivalent” vaccines, substantially boosted levels of antibodies capable of fighting that variant, more than simply giving another dose of today’s vaccine. Marks …

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation said it's creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. WHO's Europe director, Hans Kluge, said on June 15 he was concerned by the scramble by some rich countries to buy more vaccines without talk of buying supplies for Africa. Mr. Kluge urged governments "to approach …

Q&A: Novavax hopes its COVID shot wins over FDA, vaccine holdouts
2 years, 7 months ago

Q&A: Novavax hopes its COVID shot wins over FDA, vaccine holdouts

LA Times  

Americans may soon get a new COVID-19 vaccine option — shots made with a more tried-and-true technology than today’s versions. “What I’ve seen of the Novavax data so far is it’s a really impressive protein vaccine,” said University of Pennsylvania immunologist E. John Wherry. Novavax, a small biotech company, created the vaccine in its research lab, but the Serum Institute …

Biden administration moves to make COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid more available
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden administration moves to make COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid more available

LA Times  

About 25,000 to 30,000 courses of the COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid are being prescribed each day. The White House announced more steps Thursday to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects that COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season. It’s the first time in the course of the pandemic that …

Adar Poonawalla’s Pitch for Pandemic Treaty at Davos, Says Might Have to Destroy Covid Jab Doses
2 years, 7 months ago

Adar Poonawalla’s Pitch for Pandemic Treaty at Davos, Says Might Have to Destroy Covid Jab Doses

News 18  

Serum Institute of India chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla, in an interview to Shereen Bhan of CNBC-TV18, on Monday said he is advocating a global pandemic treaty, and has proposed that there should be a framework for leaders to work with. Stressing that there is an “oversupply” of Covid-19 vaccines in the world, Poonawalla, on the sidelines of the World …

With old-school technology, can Novavax win over COVID vaccine skeptics?
2 years, 7 months ago

With old-school technology, can Novavax win over COVID vaccine skeptics?

LA Times  

A vial of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is ready for use in a Phase 3 clinical trial in London. Some people “may prefer tried and true technologies” for COVID-19 vaccines, said Dr. Filip Dubovsky, the chief medical officer of Novavax. It’s even possible a single Novavax shot could target multiple coronavirus variants in one shot, although Dubovsky said it makes …

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. He spoke solemnly of the once-unthinkable U.S. toll: “1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table.” The coronavirus has …

Biden urges global COVID fight, US nears 1 million deaths
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden urges global COVID fight, US nears 1 million deaths

Al Jazeera  

World leaders held a summit to discuss efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future health threats. United States President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders to commit to a renewed international effort to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, as he marked the approaching “tragic milestone” of one million deaths from the virus in the US. “Today, we mark …

UK clears 6th Covid vaccine despite cancelling deal for doses
2 years, 8 months ago

UK clears 6th Covid vaccine despite cancelling deal for doses

India Today  

British authorities have authorized a coronavirus vaccine for adults made by French drugmaker Valneva, despite the government's decision last year to cancel an order for at least 100 million doses. Britain's medicines regulator said Thursday that the two-dose vaccine is intended for adults ages 18 to 50, with the second dose given about a month after the first. FULL CORONAVIRUS …

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
2 years, 8 months ago

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic

LA Times  

In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders — a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help — it received more than 11 million vaccines from the U.S. — and that any cuts “would make …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative

LA Times  

A worker moves boxes carrying Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine at SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, South Korea, on Feb. 9. Novavax, the company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world, will miss a target for giving doses to a U.N.-backed effort to supply shots to poorer countries. The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic. The company, Novavax, got $388 million from one …

AstraZeneca set to abandon push for US vaccine approval
2 years, 9 months ago

AstraZeneca set to abandon push for US vaccine approval

The Telegraph  

AstraZeneca is braced to abandon efforts to get its Covid vaccine approved in the US if it is simply "banging its head against a brick wall indefinitely" with regulators. Speaking to the Financial Times, he said: “If we don’t end up submitting it for a BLA, I don’t think it will have an impact around the world.” The company has …

Corbevax safe for kids, offers high antibody levels, says Biological E CEO | EXCLUSIVE
2 years, 9 months ago

Corbevax safe for kids, offers high antibody levels, says Biological E CEO | EXCLUSIVE

India Today  

India's third homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, Corbevax, is safe and offers good immunogenicity and higher antibody levels than some other vector vaccines, said Mahima Datla, managing director of Biological E. Limited on Wednesday. THE CORBEVAX CONTROVERSY Asked how effective the vaccine will be against Omicron, the latest strain to emerge which drove the third wave in, Datla said it was a …

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit
2 years, 10 months ago

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders on Thursday lauded the bloc’s vaccine cooperation with Africa in the fight against the coronavirus, but there was no sign they would move toward a temporary lifting of intellectual property rights protection for COVID-19 shots. “It is about the capacity of Africa to produce their own vaccines, to develop mRNA manufacturing capacity across Africa,” von …

WHO: Europe entering ‘plausible endgame’ to COVID pandemic
2 years, 11 months ago

WHO: Europe entering ‘plausible endgame’ to COVID pandemic

Associated Press  

COPENHAGEN — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said Thursday the continent is now entering a “plausible endgame” to the pandemic and that the number of coronavirus deaths is starting to plateau. Dr. Hans Kluge said at a media briefing that there is a “singular opportunity” for countries across Europe to take control of COVID-19 transmission due …

Europe could be headed for pandemic \'endgame\': WHO
2 years, 11 months ago

Europe could be headed for pandemic \'endgame\': WHO

Deccan Chronicle  

COPENHAGEN: The Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director said Sunday. "It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," Hans Kluge told AFP in an interview, adding that Omicron could infect 60 percent of Europeans by March. "We …

Panel pitches full market nod for Covaxin, Covishield
2 years, 11 months ago

Panel pitches full market nod for Covaxin, Covishield

Hindustan Times  

The subject expert panel of the national drugs regulator on Wednesday recommended full market authorisation for both Covaxin and Covishield under certain conditions, according to people familiar with the developments. Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech International Ltd, manufacturers of Covishield and Covaxin respectively, separately applied to the central drugs standard control organisation to seek full market authorisation stating …

Covid-19: What will it take to vaccinate the world?
2 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19: What will it take to vaccinate the world?

Hindustan Times  

This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It will not provide very durable protection Clara Ferreira Marques: You’re a veteran advocate for global health, vaccines and tropical-disease control, and served as a U.S. science envoy during the Obama administration. The Texas Children’s Hospital Center for …

This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says
2 years, 11 months ago

This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says

LA Times  

John Nkengasong, left, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and moderator Julia Chatterley during a remote panel on vaccine equity at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking during a panel discussion on vaccine inequity hosted by the World Economic Forum, said “we may never end the virus” because such pandemic viruses “end …

Omicron pushing COVID out of pandemic phase: EU agency
2 years, 11 months ago

Omicron pushing COVID out of pandemic phase: EU agency

Raw Story  

The spread of the Omicron variant is pushing Covid towards being an endemic disease that humanity can live with, although it remains a pandemic for now, the EU's drug watchdog said Tuesday. The European Medicines Agency also expressed doubts about giving a fourth vaccine shot to the general population, saying repeated boosters were not a "sustainable" strategy. "Nobody knows exactly …

’Have tools to end Covid but...’: WHO chief alerts on new variants. Read here
3 years ago

’Have tools to end Covid but...’: WHO chief alerts on new variants. Read here

Live Mint  

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that we have the tools to end the COVID pandemic, but if we fail to share the vaccines then variants will keep ravaging. WHO chief comment comes as a response to a Telegraph UK article that noted that “If we do not vaccinate the world, the pandemic won't end, more variants …

Covid pandemic will end if countries achieve this target, says WHO chief
3 years ago

Covid pandemic will end if countries achieve this target, says WHO chief

Live Mint  

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus on Tuesday reiterated that only vaccine equity can end the current pandemic and that all the countries need to come together to vaccinate 70% of people in every country by July 2022. The WHO chief has been urging the world leaders to come together to end vaccine equity as many countries are yet to …

COVID: Study suggests AstraZeneca booster works against Omicron
3 years ago

COVID: Study suggests AstraZeneca booster works against Omicron

Al Jazeera  

Findings from the study, which has yet to be peer reviewed, match those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. AstraZeneca has said that a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine “significantly” lifted antibody levels against the Omicron coronavirus variant, citing data from a new laboratory study. Boosters ‘limit Omicron spread’ Oxford’s researchers analysed blood samples taken from individuals infected with COVID-19; those …

Blanket booster dose plans won’t end Covid: WHO
3 years ago

Blanket booster dose plans won’t end Covid: WHO

Live Mint  

Omicron threat: Blanket Covid booster dose programmes are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather than ending it, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. "Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate," WHO …

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