The move comes after a recommendation from Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization on Monday, which called for a pause to buy time to evaluate the safety concerns, namely over a rare blood clotting condition known as vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia, or VIPIT. “There is substantial uncertainty about the benefit …
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“It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply participate in normal society,” the governor said during a Monday press briefing, adding “You’re going to do this and what, give all this information …
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The European Union publicly espouses a policy of strategic autonomy, meaning that it should, in theory, strive to be more independent, pursue its own interests. However, recent events suggest that the EU is perfectly content being a ping pong ball in the US’ Cold War 2.0: Electric Boogaloo. For starters, …
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Speaking on Thursday, Angela Merkel praised the work of German vaccine developers in the global effort to inoculate people against Covid-19, but said it was right that Germany did not go it alone and, instead, worked with EU partners to ensure equitable supply across the bloc. “It was right to …
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The pharma firm publicized the results of its 32,000-person US trial in the early hours of Thursday morning, reporting that the immunization is 76% effective overall and 100% effective in staving off “critical disease and hospitalization” from Covid-19. For adults over the age of 65, the company put the figure …
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Speaking on Wednesday, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said the EU and its member states would now evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, whether vaccine shipments will be allowed to leave the 27-nation bloc, but under new criteria. The criteria, which had previously been touted by EC President Ursula von …
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The government said on Wednesday that it had been informed by a local distributor of the vaccine that there was a problem with how the vials in one batch were sealed. Officials responded by ordering vaccination sites to temporarily suspend injections of the batch, numbered 210102, as well as a …
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The president, who has been noticeably cautious when it comes to Covid-19, received the jab in Moscow on Tuesday. Putin is “feeling well,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the president has a full working day scheduled for Wednesday. Kremlin has earlier refused to reveal which formula Putin was injected with, …
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On Monday, the pharmaceutical giant released promising interim results from its US study, which showed its drug to have 79% efficacy in stopping symptomatic Covid-19 and to be 100% effective at preventing severe cases and hospitalization. The firm also said that the results showed that the drug does not cause …
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The Ulema Council announced on Monday that Muslims in the Russian Federation should not be “excessively punctilious” about the vaccine, quoting the words of the Prophet Muhammad to “fear excessiveness in matters of faith.” Islamic law scholars found it necessary to comment on the world’s first registered coronavirus vaccine, because …
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