South Africa will put on hold use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot in its vaccination program, after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild-to-moderate infection caused by the country’s dominant coronavirus variant.Continue Reading
Healthy young people might not get the coronavirus vaccine until 2022 as public health officials focus on immunizing the elderly and other vulnerable groups first, top officials from the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Researchers have been warning that production constraints and hoarding could limit SARS-CoV-2 vaccine supplies. This warningContinue Reading
Facing a virus that has already sickened millions of people around the globe — including the president of the United States — and killed above a million more, public health experts regard a vaccine as the one thing that can help the planet regain control and restore a semblance ofContinue Reading
Kaiser Health News reviews five things to consider in making vaccine dreams come true. It is important to remember that no single strategy or technology is going to rescue society from the pandemic: not masks, not better testing, not a drug, not vaccines. The reality is that fighting the coronavirusContinue Reading
An organization aims to compare “apples to apples” and analyze data from all of the experimental drugs that reach clinical trials to determine which COVID-19 vaccine candidates have the best chances of beating the virus.The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which is funding in part some of the vaccinesContinue Reading
CNBC interviewed five participants — three in Moderna’s study and two in Pfizer’s late-stage trials — about their symptoms after getting vaccinated. While the symptoms were uncomfortable, and at times intense, they often went away after a day, sometimes sooner, according to three participants in the Moderna trial and one in Pfizer’sContinue Reading
The whole world is waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine. More than 100 different vaccines are being investigated, and 42 of them are already being tested in humans, which is lightning-fast progress in the world of vaccine development. 11 vaccines are already in Phase 3 trials, which use thousands of volunteerContinue Reading
One of Harvard’s HIV experts writes about how we know repeat infections are possible and how understanding them will shape the fight against the pandemic. The author points out that humans do get infections from common coronaviruses that cause cold symptoms. Even if you have gotten infected with a cold-coronavirusContinue Reading
The race is not always to the swift, as the cocky hare learned in Aesop’s classic fable, “The Hare and the Tortoise.” Those handicapping the so-called competition to develop Covid-19 vaccines would do well to keep an eye on the slower runners in this pursuit. STAT News writes about theContinue Reading
European governments will pay claims above an agreed limit against AstraZeneca over side-effects from its potential COVID-19 vaccine, under different terms to a deal struck with Sanofi, an EU official told Reuters. AstraZeneca got a partial waiver in exchange for providing vaccine at a low price to the EU. TheContinue Reading
