In South Africa, which has the continent’s most robust economy and its biggest coronavirus caseload, just 0.8% of the population is fully vaccinated In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has […]
A version of this story appeared in the March 17 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. (CNN)After virtually all of western Europe temporarily suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, the continent’s top medicines regulator […]
London (CNN)The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the virus, rather than simply preventing symptomatic infections, UK researchers have suggested.The rate of positive PCR tests declined by about half after two doses, according to preliminary results by researchers at the University of Oxford that […]
By Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman Striking a compromise between two high-risk population groups, a panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Sunday to recommend that people age 75 and older be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the United States, […]
The coronavirus vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will be available on a non-profit basis “in perpetuity” to low- and middle-income countries in the developing world. The details of arrangements to supply poorer countries came as AstraZeneca revealed the interim results of a phase 3 trial of […]
(Photo credits: Getty Images) By Dereck Major OPINION—Some COVID-19 vaccines are showing positive signs of working, leading many to wonder who should get first access to a vaccine. According to MarketWatch, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials and an outside advisory committee are […]
The UK security minister James Brokenshire has said Britain is “more than 95%” sure that Russian state-sponsored hackers targeted UK, US and Canadian organisations involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine. Brokenshire said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterparts in the […]
New York (CNN Business)Moderna set off a frenzy on Wall Street earlier this month when it announced positive, preliminary results from its coronavirus vaccine trial. As the hype grew, the young biotech company and its leading investor wasted no time capitalizing on the briefly surging […]
The widespread interruption of routine immunization programs around the world during the coronavirus pandemic is putting 80 million children under 1 year old at risk of contracting deadly, vaccine-preventable diseases, according to a report Friday by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, […]
The Trump administration has offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported. The German government is trying to fight off what it sees as an aggressive takeover bid by the US, the […]
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