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Tag: Vaccines
05/24/2021
This Is the Wrong Way to Distribute Badly Needed Vaccines
A global alliance to assure poor and moderate income countries “equitable access” to Covid vaccines is shortchanging nations in desperate need, while providing vaccines to others that have comparatively few cases or lack the ability to distribute them.
05/21/2021
The Man Who Is Actually Getting a Free Krispy Kreme Vax Doughnut a Day
Is he embarrassed? Yes. Is he worried about calories? No. Do the employees hate him? Unclear.
05/21/2021
Covax will receive 200 million doses, a deal that could boost the sagging campaign to vaccinate world’s poor.
Covax, the global vaccine-sharing program, will receive about 200 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in a deal that could eventually boost a flagging campaign to vaccinate the world’s poorest countries.
05/21/2021
Pfizer, BioNTech pledge 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to lower-income countries
American vaccine maker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech pledged Friday to provide 1 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to low-and-moderate income countries by the end of 2021.
05/19/2021
Mix-and-match COVID vaccines trigger potent immune response
Preliminary results from a trial of more than 600 people are the first to show the benefits of combining different vaccines.
05/20/2021
Cattle for raffle gets Thai town in moood for vaccines
A district of northern Thailand has launched a raffle campaign for inoculated residents to win a live cow per week for the rest of the year, in a bid to boost the local COVID-19 vaccination drive.
05/18/2021
CDC says 600,000 kids ages 12 to 15 have received Covid vaccine shots in last week
Vaccinating adolescents will bring us closer to having 70% to 85% of the total population vaccinated, which experts say is needed to achieve herd immunity.
05/17/2021
The Conventional Wisdom on the Vaccine Wall Is Wrong
On the menu today: how the conventional wisdom that America has hit the vaccine wall is just flat wrong; how Ohio’s vaccine-encouragement lottery system had an immediate impact; and the risk-vs.-reward calculation of professional athletes when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations.
05/18/2021
Pfizer vaccine can now be stored in fridge for longer, EU drug regulator says
The European Union's drugs regulator has said the Pfizer Covid vaccine can now be stored at fridge temperature for much longer than it previously recommended.
05/14/2021
Is it now reasonable to discuss the end of the pandemic? Yes, but with caveats.
The end of the pandemic may not be near, exactly, but it’s no longer rash, impolitic or scientifically dubious to broach the topic.
05/14/2021
Take Off That Mask
If you are fully vaccinated, the time to resume normal life is now.
05/13/2021