SEATTLE (Reuters) – The number of Boeing Co employees seeking a vaccine exemption on religious or medical grounds has reached more than 11,000 – or nearly 9% of its U.S. […]
Opinion | Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated
By Aaron E. Carroll Dr. Carroll is the chief health officer for Indiana University. He’s also a writer who focuses on health research and policy. Case counts are rising, some […]
Pfizer's Covid-19 shot provides shield against severe illness, less effective in halting infections
TEL AVIV (BLOOMBERG) – Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine provided a strong shield against hospitalisation and more severe disease in cases caused by the contagious Delta variant in Israel in recent weeks, […]
WHO health officials call for Covid-19 vaccine donations in Central America
GENEVA (NYTIMES) – Covid-19 cases are increasing in many Central American and Caribbean countries, officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday (July 21) as they called on […]
Booster may be needed for J&J Covid-19 shot, some experts already taking them
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Infectious disease experts are weighing the need for booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA-based vaccines for Americans who received Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine […]
Brazil hunts for Covid-19 vaccines in world of new outbreaks, shortages
SAO PAULO (BLOOMBERG) – Brazil is struggling to find vaccines to tackle one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks as resurgent outbreaks and supply shortages among top providers slow the […]
Moderna vaccine to be reviewed for WHO emergency listing on April 30
GENEVA (REUTERS) – Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine will be reviewed on April 30 by technical experts for possible WHO emergency-use listing, a World Health Organisation (WHO) spokesman told Reuters. “We are […]
Covid-19 vaccines available, but reluctance contagious in Senegal
MBAO, SENEGAL (AFP) – While people around the world wait impatiently to be vaccinated against Covid-19, an inoculation site in Senegal was empty on a recent day – a sign […]
UN Security Council to debate challenge of global Covid-19 vaccine access
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – At the initiative of Britain, which boasts of having an effective vaccination programme, the UN Security Council on Wednesday (Feb 17) will debate the […]
Pfizer's shot only slightly less effective against key S. African mutations: Study
NEW YORK • Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new variant found […]