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Tackling the new variants
2 years, 4 months ago

Tackling the new variants

Hindustan Times  

The first redesigned coronavirus vaccine was approved for use this week when authorities in the United Kingdom cleared a Moderna dose that the company adapted to create immunity against the Omicron variant. The vaccine is a 50-50 formulation of Moderna’s 2020 product, designed on the Sars-CoV-2 variant that first spread around the world, and of a new dose developed using …

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Weighing the choices: on precautionary vaccine doses
2 years, 8 months ago

Weighing the choices: on precautionary vaccine doses

The Hindu  

As India sees a steady slump in its daily coronavirus count, the Centre has announced opening up the third, or ‘precautionary doses’, to everyone over 18 years. A major aspect of vaccines is the risk of adverse events following vaccination, and previous experience has suggested that certain vaccines may induce a higher risk of blood clots in younger populations. With …

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Vaccine Diplomacy in Asia
2 years, 9 months ago

Vaccine Diplomacy in Asia

The Diplomat  

COVID-19 has reshaped everything, not least global politics. The United States Is Still Leading According to the Think Global Health initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, leading powers have pledged to donate around 2.7 billion vaccine doses to other nations globally. By late last year the United States had delivered more than 90 million COVID-19 doses of its promised …

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WHO: Africa might miss 70% vaccination goal until late 2024
3 years ago

WHO: Africa might miss 70% vaccination goal until late 2024

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world’s richer countries have already met, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Health officials in South Africa, which first announced the variant, say early data indicate it causes …

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Column: Moderna’s founders are now billionaires, but where are the doses for the rest of the world?
3 years, 2 months ago

Column: Moderna’s founders are now billionaires, but where are the doses for the rest of the world?

LA Times  

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine being prepared for shipping. “Of the more than 6.5 billion doses administered globally, fewer than 4% have gone to people in low-income countries,” Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, observed recently. “They need to step up as a company and provide COVAX with doses at not-for-profit prices,” David Kessler, chief …

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UN calls for $8bn to redress world COVID vaccine imbalance
3 years, 2 months ago

UN calls for $8bn to redress world COVID vaccine imbalance

Al Jazeera  

UN chief Antonio Guterres says vaccine inequity is not only “immoral but stupid” because it will give rise to new variants and more deaths. “Vaccine inequality is the best ally of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Guterres said, as he appealed for wealthy nations who have so far received most of the world’s vaccines to step up. “It is allowing variants to …

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Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

Associated Press  

PARIS — No one disputes that the world is unfair. “But the whole idea was that we thought rich countries would fund it for the developing world.” Happi said officials never expected the pandemic would strike first and hardest in Europe and the U.S. Or that their assessment of preparedness in the world’s most advanced economies would prove horrifically optimistic. …

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Novavax claims large study in US and Mexico finds its COVID-19 vaccine about 90% effective
3 years, 6 months ago

Novavax claims large study in US and Mexico finds its COVID-19 vaccine about 90% effective

Firstpost  

The vaccine was similarly effective against several variants including the one first detected in the UK, and in high-risk populations Washington: Vaccine maker Novavax said on Monday its shot was highly effective against COVID-19 and also protected against variants in a large, late-stage study in the US and Mexico. While more than half of the US population has had at …

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G-7 nations expected to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world
3 years, 6 months ago

G-7 nations expected to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world

Associated Press  

ST. IVES, England — The Group of Seven nations are set to commit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday, with half coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K. as President Joe Biden urged allies to join in speeding the pandemic’s end and bolstering the strategic …

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COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words on Buddha Purnima, that in times to come the planet will remember events as either “pre-Covid or post-Covid” could not hold truer than for India’s diplomatic structure worldwide. These include requesting the U.S. to share a substantial portion of its stockpile of AstraZeneca doses and to release more vaccine ingredients which are restricted for exports; …

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Europe pause of AstraZeneca sends ripple of doubt elsewhere
3 years, 9 months ago

Europe pause of AstraZeneca sends ripple of doubt elsewhere

Associated Press  

KAMPALA, Uganda — The suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine in several European countries over the past week could fuel skepticism about the shot far beyond their shores, potentially threatening the rollout of a vaccine that is key to the global strategy to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic, especially in developing nations. With little other choice, most developing countries that had …

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Why Indians Should Call Out Western World’s Vaccine Hypocrisy During a Pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

Why Indians Should Call Out Western World’s Vaccine Hypocrisy During a Pandemic

News 18  

In early February this year, there were two incidents that involved the people of India and the people of Barbados. That week, India had donated 100,000 free doses of vaccine to Barbados, enough to cover more than a third of that country’s population. Since early January, India has exported doses of vaccine to over 70 countries around the world. On …

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Biden boosts US vaccine stockpile as world waits
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden boosts US vaccine stockpile as world waits

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely U.S. surplus of doses later this year while much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages. Even before Wednesday’s order, the U.S. was to have enough approved vaccine delivered by mid-May to …

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India's vaccine production capacity is best asset world has today, says UN chief
3 years, 10 months ago

India's vaccine production capacity is best asset world has today, says UN chief

Hindustan Times  

Calling for India to play a major role in global vaccination campaign, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday termed the vaccine production capacity of India as the "best asset" that the world has today. Addressing a weekly briefing, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Thursday said India plans to gift vaccines doses to Oman, CARICOM countries, Nicaragua, Pacific …

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India’s vaccination drive much slower than targeted in first two weeks
3 years, 10 months ago

India’s vaccination drive much slower than targeted in first two weeks

Live Mint  

India this week became the sixth country to administer more than 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, even as the infection spread continued to subside. No one has been vaccinated fully so far in India as both vaccines being used in the country need two doses spaced a few weeks apart. Kerala is the only state where active cases …

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Coronavirus | No option to select between Covishield and Covaxin, says Union Health Secretary
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus | No option to select between Covishield and Covaxin, says Union Health Secretary

The Hindu  

People would not have the option of making a choice between the two available COVID-19 vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin – when the rollout starts on January 16, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said at a press conference on Tuesday. The Union government, he said, had agreed to procure 110 lakh Covishield doses from the Serum Institute of India at …

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'V-Day': All Eyes on UK as it Readies for World's First Coronavirus Vaccination Roll-out
4 years ago

'V-Day': All Eyes on UK as it Readies for World's First Coronavirus Vaccination Roll-out

News 18  

Its been dubbed V-Day in Britain – recalling the D-Day landings in France that marked the start of the final push in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany. A week after the U.K. became the first Western country to authorize widespread use of a vaccine against COVID-19, it is preparing to administer its first shots on Tuesday in its …

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How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts
4 years ago

How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts

NPR  

How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts Loading. "Part of the reason is that rich countries are hoarding the vaccine supply," Lusiani says. When these doses become available over the next year, some wealthy counties will likely end up with more vaccine than they need, says Andrea Taylor, who helps direct the Duke Global Health Innovation Center. …

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Gates Foundation Donates an Extra 70mn Dollar to Fund Equal Distribution of Covid Vaccines
4 years, 1 month ago

Gates Foundation Donates an Extra 70mn Dollar to Fund Equal Distribution of Covid Vaccines

News 18  

The Gates Foundation added another $70 million of funding on Thursday to global efforts to develop and distribute vaccines and treatments against the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it hoped other international donors would now also pledge more. An extra $50 million will go to the COVAX Advance Market Commitment led by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the foundation said, and another $20 …

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Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Be Available to Everyone Before End of 2024, Says Serum Institute Chief
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Be Available to Everyone Before End of 2024, Says Serum Institute Chief

News 18  

Dampening hopes of a Covid-19 vaccine by year-end, the chief executive of the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines has said that adequate coronavirus vaccine will not be available for everybody in the world to be immunised until the end of 2024. The family-operated Serum Institute, which is in Pune, has partnered with five international pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca and Novavax, …

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High Hopes in Small Vials: China Firms Display Coronavirus Vaccines for First Time
4 years, 3 months ago

High Hopes in Small Vials: China Firms Display Coronavirus Vaccines for First Time

News 18  

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic. High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on show at a Beijing trade fair this week — vaccine candidates produced by Chinese companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm. The potential …

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