Updated on 12/23/2021 02:41 pm The Ecuadorian government declared vaccination against the COVID-19 due to the increase in infections and the circulation of new variants of this virus such as omicron, which at an international level is putting pressure on hospital systems. In a statement it was specified that this country has the amount of […]
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Israel announces fourth dose of vaccine for over 60s and health personnel
Updated on 12/21/2021 06:43 pm Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that both health workers and those over 60 will have access to a fourth dose of vaccine against COVID-19, as recommended by the panel of experts advising the government. “The citizens of Israel were the first in the world to receive a third dose […]
WHO says it is unknown if vaccines have reduced effectiveness against omicron
Updated on 12/20/2021 05:57 pm The World Health Organization (WHO) asked not to draw hasty conclusions about the effectiveness of current COVID vaccines against the variant omicron, since the initial data that point to a decrease in immune protection come from laboratory studies and “not from real life”. “We can understand the great interest and […]
Moderna Delays Vaccine Patent Due to Dispute with US Government
Updated on 12/20/2021 02:52 am Moderna Inc. said he delayed the issuance of his patent vaccine COVID with the intention of allowing negotiations with its partners in the Government of U.S on who should be listed as inventors. For its part, the US government is opposed to Moderna listing only scientists from the company, and […]
COVID-19: US CDC Panel Recommends Pfizer or Moderna Vaccines Over J&J
Most Americans should get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines against COVID-19 instead of Jansen’s vaccine Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which on rare occasions can cause serious clots, recommended a panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the United States. The unusual clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths in people who […]
Omicron could be the dominant variant in the world in a couple of months
The omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 it could become dominant in the world in a matter of a couple of months and displace the delta variant, said Ramus Bech Hansen, CEO of Airifnity, a scientific information analysis company. “Ómicron is going very fast and has become the dominant variant in some countries, […]
Have you been waiting to get vaccinated? Now is the time, according to experts
Determine the effectiveness of vaccines COVID-19 Against the new omicron variant it will take a while; “We are still learning” about the delta variant and its influence on these preparations, according to experts, who remind those who have been waiting to be vaccinated that now is the time to do so. “It takes time to […]
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Would Only Partially Protect Against Omicron
Updated on 07/12/2021 06:35 pm The omicron variant of the coronavirus may partially evade the protection of the vaccine against the COVID-19 from Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech, Bloomberg News reported, citing the head of research for a laboratory at the African Health Research Institute in South Africa. His evasion is not complete and […]
An ‘ideal’ model of annual vaccination against COVID
Lionel laurent Two doses? Three? Plus? The euphoria with which the safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 A year ago it has turned into confusion and debate in the face of resurgence of cases and a nasty new variant. The rich world is redoubling its efforts to get booster doses, ignoring the warnings of the […]
Israel evaluate authorizing the application of a fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19
The government of Israel will begin preparations for the application of a fourth dose of the vaccine against the COVID-19, as the country faces a new wave of infections despite the great progress it has made in the immunization campaign against the disease. For this reason, the national czar of the coronavirus in Israel, Salman […]