Like many others, the 66-year-old filmmaker found his life significantly changed due to the pandemic. Previously a regular traveler due to his work and fame, he now spends much time at his country home, limiting outside contacts as much as possible to avoid the infection. “For the first time I …
Read More »WHO vaccine chief says ‘crushing transmission’ of Covid-19 is vital to avoid further mutations amid global vaccine roll-out
The agency’s immunization and vaccines chief, Professor Katherine O’Brien, said she wanted to emphasize the “importance of really crushing transmission” of the virus in order to guarantee the “maximum impact” of vaccines. “The risk of variants relative to the vaccines is ever greater when the transmission is very high in …
Read More »Bill Gates receives Covid-19 vaccine two days after Biden sworn in despite questioning if FDA can be trusted with jab under Trump
“I feel great,” Gates announced to the world on Friday, adding a picture of himself getting a Covid-19 vaccine. “Thank you to all of the scientists, trial participants, regulators, and frontline healthcare workers who got us to this point,” he added. At 65, Gates is eligible to receive the vaccine …
Read More »Fire breaks out at world’s biggest vaccine maker, India’s Serum Institute (VIDEO)
On Thursday afternoon, emergency services were called to an SII plant in Pune, after a fire broke out on the fifth floor. Executive Director Suresh Jadhav confirmed the facility in question is used for the production of a BCG vaccine – an inoculation used primarily against tuberculosis. SII is the …
Read More »Taking unproven vaccine is a risk/benefit exercise – but with Covid-19 it’s worth the risk, head of China’s CDC tells RT
Professor Gao Fu, Director General of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, famously participated in the clinical trial of one of the China-developed vaccines against Covid-19. In an interview with RT’s Going Underground program, he said he considered this to be the right call, and encouraged everybody to …
Read More »Police chief ‘baffled’ as to why officers aren’t at the front of the Covid-19 vaccine queue
Speaking on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told LBC radio that she was “baffled” by the decision of government experts not to follow the lead of other countries who have elected to put their law enforcement officers at the front of the queue for inoculations. “In many other …
Read More »California halts injections of Moderna Covid vaccine batch due to ‘higher-than-usual number of adverse events’
Doses from Moderna Lot 041L20A are suspected of causing a “higher-than-usual number of adverse events” and should be shelved until a proper investigation can be conducted, the California Department of Public Health said on Sunday. State epidemiologist Dr. Erica S. Pan said in a statement that “fewer than 10 individuals” …
Read More »Blasting Bill Gates and claiming Covid vaccine contains Satanic microchips gets Mexican cardinal censored by Facebook
Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez claimed in a video on the social media platform that vaccines to combat the spread of the coronavirus contain “the mark of the beast.” In a video titled ‘Plot of a new world order’, which was released on January 12, the 87-year-old claimed that the pandemic …
Read More »Reports that Brazil rejected Russian Covid-19 vaccine are ‘inaccurate’, Sputnik V sponsor says, after approval hiccup
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) announced on Saturday that it had returned a request for the emergency use of Sputnik V to the applicant, pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica. The paperwork submitted by the firm did not meet the “minimum requirements for submission and analysis by Anvisa,” the regulator said. …
Read More »Argentina receives second batch of Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 (VIDEO)
The refrigerated containers with the vaccine were delivered on Saturday from Moscow by a special flight of the Latin American country’s flagship carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas. “Those new doses represent the second component needed to conclude the vaccination after the first stage,” Gines Gonzalez Garcia, Argentina’s health minister, wrote on Twitter. The …
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