Updated on 03/12/2021 03:59 am Pfizer expects its COVID-19 vaccine to be effective against the omicron variant, an executive said, and data on how well it protects should be available within two to three weeks. “We do not expect there to be a significant drop in effectiveness,” Ralf Rene Reinert, vice president of vaccines for […]
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COVID-19: Delta variant may have greater ability to evade immunity from vaccines
Updated on 02/12/2021 05:30 pm The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be more successful in evading the protective response of vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, indicates a study that does not include the new omicron and published by Plos. A team of British scientists, led by the University of Glasgow, did an analysis to quantify […]
COVID-19: Brazil, first country in Latin America to report two cases of omicron
Updated on 11/30/2021 05:40 pm The Secretary of Health of Sao Paulo confirmed the first two positive cases of the variant omicron of the COVID-19, which makes Brazil the first Latin American country to report infections of this type. Samples from a 41-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman who had arrived in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, […]
Pfizer could have a new vaccine against the omicron variant in 100 days
Updated on 11/30/2021 11:24 am In a period of 100 days, a vaccine could be developed against the new omicron variant of COVID-19, said the president and director of Pfizer Spain Sergio Rodríguez Márquez during his statements in the Congress of Deputies. Before the Investigation Committee on the management of vaccines and the Vaccination Plan, […]
Why were the COVID vaccines achieved in months and there is still no one for HIV?
The first cases of AIDS were described in 1981 and it was not until 1983 that Luc Montagnier’s laboratory isolated and identified the virus that was wreaking havoc, the VIH. The first patients of COVID-19 They were those of Wuhan, in December 2019, and in a matter of days it was learned that SARS-CoV-2 was […]
US urges all adults to get variant booster vaccine
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged all adults to get a booster dose of the vaccine against him COVID-19 before the new variant of this disease, called omicron. Before omicron, the CDC recommended a booster dose for everyone over the age of 50, and believed that those between the ages of […]
“Vaccine”, word of the year 2021 for the Merriam-Webster dictionary
The American Merriam-Webster dictionary on the internet announced that “vaccine” is the word of the year 2021, after registering significant interest in a term that it said went beyond the medical dimension to dominate the social debate in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Few words can express so much in a period of time,” […]
Crucial WTO negotiation on access to pandemic-suspended vaccines
The ministers and senior trade officials of the 164 countries that make up the World Trade Organization (WTO) they were left with the packed suitcases after the suspension of the ministerial conference in which they were going to participate next week in Geneva – due to the appearance of a new variant of the coronavirus […]
EU authorizes use of Pfizer vaccine in children from 5 to 11 years old
The drug regulator of the European Union (EU) authorized the use of the vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech in children between the ages of five and 11, paving the way for the vaccination of millions of primary school students on the continent amid a widespread spike in infections across Europe. This is the first time that […]
Chile expands vaccination against COVID-19 for minors from the age of three
Updated on 11/25/2021 05:21 pm Chile announced this Thursday that it will begin to vaccinate against the COVID-19 to children from the age of three, in a new expansion of the vaccination program in the country, where already more than 90% of the target population is immunized with the full schedule. The Chilean Public Health […]