Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Coronavirus
05/06/2021
Pfizer COVID vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants
Data from Qatar provide strongest evidence yet that COVID-19 vaccines can stop strains thought to pose a threat to immunization efforts.
05/11/2021
US FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in people ages 12 to 15
05/10/2021
Dracula’s castle in Romania proves an ideal setting for Covid vaccinations
Every weekend through May “vaccination marathons” will be held just outside the storied 14th-century hilltop castle.
05/09/2021
Vaccinations are rising in the European Union after a long, slow start.
On average over the last week, nearly three million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were being administered each day in the European Union, a group of 27 nations, according to Our World in Data, a University of Oxford database. Adjusted for population, the rate is roughly equivalent to the number of shots given each day in the United States, where demand has been falling.
04/29/2021
Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real
Readjusting our ideas about what’s safe is going to take time.
05/04/2021
American Health Depends on Exporting Covid Vaccines
Supply exceeds demand at home, and viral variants could eventually defeat the inoculations.
05/04/2021
Pfizer vaccine for adolescents to get FDA authorization; much-anticipated decision opens door for teens 12-15
05/03/2021
Moderna to Deliver Covid-19 Vaccine to Hard-Hit Developing World
Sale of 34 million doses comes as pandemic rages in countries such as India and Brazil
05/02/2021
Op-Ed: Want to prevent the next pandemic?
We’ll need a more powerful World Health Organization
04/30/2021
How the US won the economic recovery
I looked for a country that got the economic response to Covid-19 right. I found the US.
04/30/2021
Epidemics That Didn’t Happen
Yellow fever in Brazil. Ebola in Uganda. By studying pandemics that were successfully averted, we can prepare ourselves better for next time.
04/27/2021