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Tag: Vaccines
09/02/2021
Stop Death Shaming
Mocking the unvaccinated dead does not save lives.
09/02/2021
What Could Go Right? Tax justice
If corporations and the 1% couldn't participate in tax gymnastics anymore
08/31/2021
Axios-Ipsos poll: Vaccine hesitancy may be crumbling
Fewer adults than ever now say they won't take the shot, and in the past two weeks there has been a sharp increase in the share of parents who plan to get their younger kids vaccinated as soon as it's allowed.
08/25/2021
Thailand develops robotic system to squeeze out more vaccine doses
As Thailand struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet, researchers in the country have developed a machine to draw out COVID-19 vaccine doses more efficiently and optimise lower-than-expected supplies.
08/26/2021
Iceland has had 0 deaths from Covid-19 since May. Here’s why
CNN's Gary Tuchman looks at how Iceland has been able to lower deaths from Covid-19 to zero, and maintain it since May.
08/24/2021
RP Daily: FDA Approved… What it means.
The Pfizer vaccine is officially fool proof.
08/24/2021
COVID Vaccines Show No Signs of Harming Fertility or Sexual Function
The novel coronavirus, in contrast, can disrupt both things in unvaccinated men and women.
08/25/2021
Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones
Pandemic ceasefires offer an opportunity to expand vaccination efforts, experts say. But negotiation is tricky.
08/26/2021
What Could Go Right? Three cheers for full approval
Have you heard the one that goes, Israel's hospitals are full of the vaccinated, so that means the vaccines don't work? We dig in.
08/23/2021
FDA vaccine approval is good news for markets, employment, economy
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision Monday to grant full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's two-dose Covid-19 vaccine pushed markets higher, boosting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 300 points and propelling the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq to new highs.
08/19/2021
Moderna to start first human trials of mRNA HIV vaccine
"There's a pressing need for new ways to prevent infection from viruses like HIV and influenza that conventional vaccines have struggled to address and to treat rare genetic diseases and cancers that kill millions each year," Axios' Alison Snyder writes. "Vaccines and therapies based on messenger RNA (mRNA) hold promise as a solution."
08/22/2021