While its campaign to inoculate elderly Israelis with a booster shot has just kicked off, Tel Aviv is reportedly poised to decimate thousands of vaccine doses that expired by the end of July, Israeli media reported on Saturday. Some 80,000 unused vaccine doses worth around $1.8 million are expected to …
Read More »
Pfizer announced the purchase on Friday, stating that the sale brings the total number of doses of its Covid vaccine supplied to the US government to 500 million. “Vaccines have been and will remain critical to protecting lives against this devastating disease,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement. …
Read More »
A weekend vaccination drive in Lebanon was postponed due to a blackout at the The event planned for Saturday has been canceled due to “technical reasons related to the internet and electricity outage in most [vaccination] centers,” the Lebanese Vaccine Executive Committee said. The agency announced that the marathon has …
Read More »
Fauci appeared with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday night to address the Big Pharma firm’s announcement the day prior, noting he was not informed about the statement ahead of time while stressing US health agencies’ current recommendations about a booster dose. “Certainly, Pfizer is doing their own studies… and as …
Read More »
The Biden administration’s new plan to boost vaccination numbers by sending “surge teams” into Covid “hotspots” has the potential to go down in history as the worst public health mistake in US history. One that makes the many mistakes that have been made during the pandemic – like keeping people …
Read More »
“Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time,” the FDA and CDC said in a joint statement on Thursday, adding that the health bodies are “engaged in a science-based, rigorous process to consider whether or when a booster might be necessary.” The announcement …
Read More »
The vaccine fell to 64% effectiveness in preventing symptomatic infection over the last month, the Health Ministry reported on Monday, noting that the decrease coincided with the rapid spread of the more contagious Delta variant across Israel. The health officials however said the Pfizer shot still offers strong protection against …
Read More »
Seoul made the decision due to a delayed shipment of 835,000 AstraZeneca doses that was expected by the end of the month. Officials had hoped to use the jabs as a second shot for around 760,000 health and frontline workers who had already received their first dose in April. With …
Read More »
The news was announced by the White House on Thursday, with Biden expected to further elaborate on the move during the G7 meeting in Cornwall, UK, later in the day. “The goal of today’s donation is to save lives and end the pandemic and will provide the foundation for additional …
Read More »
The ministry says the team was set up following reports of cases of heart inflammation, known as myocarditis, among males aged 16 to 30 shortly after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine was administered. The link was found to be stronger in people aged 16-19 relative to other age …
Read More »