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Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids

Fri, 2021-10-22 09:39 — mike kraft

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the U.S. considers opening vaccinations to that age group. AP NEWS

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Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it

Thu, 2021-10-21 18:01 — mike kraft

Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries. NPR.org

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The World Health Organization has hired the company, called Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, as part of a $100 million plan to figure out how to make an mRNA vaccine against COVID that is as close as possible to the version produced by Moderna.

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Pfizer, BioNTech say COVID-19 booster shot showed high 95.6% efficacy in large study

Thu, 2021-10-21 17:52 — mike kraft

Pfizer, BioNTech say COVID-19 booster shot showed high efficacy in large study A booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE restored efficacy to 95.6% against the virus, including the Delta variant, data released by the companies from a large study showed on Thursday. Reuters Reuters

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CDC advisers vote to recommend booster shots of Johnson & Johnson and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines

Thu, 2021-10-21 17:38 — mike kraft

CDC advisers also vote to recommend booster shots of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Thursday to recommend booster doses of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines. By <a href="/profiles/melissa-mahtani">Melissa Mahtani</a> and <a href="/profiles/veronica-rocha" target="_blank">Veronica Rocha</a>, CNN CNN

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WHO estimate: 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19, as calls for vaccine access grow

Thu, 2021-10-21 11:17 — mike kraft

An estimated 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 Globally, just two in five health care workers are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the WHO said Thursday. Andrew Joseph STAT

Some 115,000 health care workers died from Covid-19 from January 2020 to May of this year, according to a new World Health Organization estimate, as the agency pushed once again for efforts to address vaccine inequity.

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Disinformation campaign: China tries to blame Covid on Maine lobsters

Thu, 2021-10-21 10:51 — mike kraft

China-linked disinformation campaign blames Covid on Maine lobsters In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory. NBC News

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

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