MEDICINE & HEALTHA new study recently found that the two current COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer are effective against the new India variant.
The WHO said the new Indian COVID-19 variant responsible for the fast acceleration of explosive outbreaks in India has been detected in dozens of countries worldwide.
Hawaii's Department of Health reported the first pediatric COVID-19 death of the state. It is a boy with underlying conditions who traveled with his vaccinated parents to Hawaii.
China CDC's director Gao Fu admitted that Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates.” They are now considering using different vaccines for their immunization program.
American federal health officials said the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine information may have included outdated information and could mean the company released an incomplete assessment of efficacy data.
Italy, France, and Spain joined Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, and more temporarily suspending vaccination rollouts of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID jabs due to reports of blood clots as a side effect. The World Health Organization stresses that there is no evidence linking the two and urges governments to continue vaccinations.
The US is set to release its third vaccine against the novel coronavirus, but people cannot help ask which among the COVID-19 vaccines available are the best.
COVID-19 vaccines have started being administered in different parts of the world. Two of them are the Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines that both show high efficacy.
Developers of vaccines usually combine two vaccines to fight the same pathogen, and the study investigators are keen to apply the same strategy of having two COVID-19 vaccines combined.
Recent tests show that there's already mutation in the Covid-19 strain identified as E484K. Recent tests show that there's already mutation in the Covid-19 strain identified as E484K, which was first detected in South Africa.
After testing positive from COVID-19, a gorilla in San Diego Zoo Safari Park has received a monoclonal antibody therapy. The veterinary believed that it played a significant part in the gorilla's recovery.
The European Union yesterday lashed out at pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, accusing it of failure to assure delivery of COVID-19 without a valid explanation.