It is hard to determine exactly at what point the hardworking scientists from Pfizer, BioNtech, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Oxford University found themselves in a ‘race’ to find a vaccine, but that is the narrative we’ve been asked to adopt by politicians since the Covid-19 virus seized the world in a …
Read More »‘Everyone’s going to get that’: Americans to be issued Covid-19 ‘VACCINE CARDS’ to track doses
“Everyone will be issued a written card that they can put in their wallet that will tell them what they had and when their next dose is due,” Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, told CNN on Thursday. The IAC is a nonprofit working with the …
Read More »Obama mocked after promise to take Covid-19 vaccine on camera, Twitter recalls Flint water-drinking ‘stunt’
“I promise you that when it’s been made for people who are less at risk, I will be taking it,” Obama said of a potential vaccine in a SiriusXM radio interview released on Thursday. “I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that people …
Read More »Half the world could get Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, say creators, as Moscow starts distributing doses en masse
At a presentation to the United Nations on Thursday, scientists from the Gamaleya Institute, which developed the formula, said that preliminary orders have been placed for more than 1.2 billion doses. Trials involving 45,000 people across the globe have concluded that 95 percent of those given both doses of Sputnik …
Read More »Britain’s Pfizer vaccine announcement gives anti-vaxxers an unlikely boost blamed on Russia without any evidence
Britain became the first nation in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use on Wednesday. The announcement was delivered in pompous style by the government, with business secretary Alok Sharma celebrating how “the UK led humanity’s charge against this disease,” and Health Secretary Matt Hancock volunteering …
Read More »UK becomes first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19
“The Government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use,” a statement by the UK authorities read. With Britain so far registering more than 1.6 million coronavirus cases and over 59,000 deaths, MHRA has moved at …
Read More »A Covid-19 vaccine may be on horizon, but it will not eradicate middle class fear of a united working class
There has been deep civil unrest over the weekend as citizens refuse to accept the creeping authoritarianism eating into their freedom and civil rights. There have been street protests, and serious clashes against the police across the country, quite rightly challenging the state on legislation that is being pushed through …
Read More »Trump asks FDA to approve Moderna coronavirus vaccine, calls development ‘a modern day miracle’
In a statement released on Monday, US biotech company Moderna said it would seek American and European emergency approval for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, after stage-three trials showed it to be 94.1 percent effective against the deadly coronavirus. President Donald Trump called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to …
Read More »Oxford and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be trialed AGAIN amid mounting questions over dosage issues
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant is to run a fresh trial of its candidate vaccine at a lower dosage, which the company earlier claimed had performed better than a full dosage. “Now that we’ve found what looks like a better efficacy we have to validate this, so we need to do …
Read More »Puzzling higher AstraZeneca vaccine efficacy for smaller dosage explained: It was reportedly tested on people only under 56
On Monday, the pharmacological company announced that its AZD1222 vaccine for Covid-19, which is based on a common cold virus that causes infection in chimpanzees, has an efficacy of 70 percent. The number is average for two slightly different tests. One involved people, who received half a dose of the …
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