Are companies likely to need to create new vaccines to better combat omicron? The answer could be yes if this new variant is shown to be different from the original strain of COVID-19. The BBC interviewed the microbiologist, Deborah Fuller, who detailed in 5 questions why it is possible that the pharmaceutical need to update […]
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COVID-19: current vaccines could be ineffective against omicron variant, warns Moderna chief
Updated on 11/30/2021 10:44 am COVID vaccines created so far could struggle to combat the variant omicron and it will take months to finalize a new effective immunizer against that strain, the president of the American laboratory Moderna told the Financial Times. Stephane Bancel told the newspaper, in an interview published on Tuesday, that the […]
Postponement of WTO meeting is a “blow” to possible agreements on vaccines and fisheries
Updated on 11/29/2021 11:07 am The postponement of the ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (OMC) this week virtually guarantees months of stagnation when it comes to fisheries subsidies and the attempt to expand vaccination against the COVID-19. Expectations of progress were already low before the meeting, which was postponed on Friday after new […]
South African Experts Trust Omicron Vaccine Response
Leading experts in the fight against the pandemic in South Africa were cautiously optimistic about the ability of existing vaccines to prevent disease. COVID-19 grave for the new variant omicron, although they expect a rapid increase in infections for the next few days. “Based on what we know, and how other variants of concern have […]
Profits from Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna amount to US $ 65,000 per minute due to COVID-19
According to a new analysis of the Popular Alliance for Vaccines (PVA), the companies Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna collectively earn $ 65,000 every minute from their COVID-19 vaccines. However, in the poorest countries in the world they still do not immunize their inhabitants. With an estimate of more than $1,000 dollars per secondAt US $ […]
Argentina will donate nearly one million AztraZeneca vaccines against Covid-19
Updated 11/11/2021 01:14 pm Argentina will donate about one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 to five countries, the Government reported this Thursday in a series of decrees published in its Official Gazette. “Guided by the principles of solidarity and fraternity”, as stated in the document, Argentina will donate 450,000 doses to Mozambique, […]
President of the European Council urges to strengthen WHO and guarantee vaccines
Updated on 10/30/2021 01:21 pm The president of the European council, Charles Michel, called this Saturday to strengthen the World Health Organization (WHO) and to guarantee “equitable” access to vaccines, during a meeting with the director general of that UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The meeting took place on the margins of the G20 summit […]
They evaluate in the US to authorize Pfizer’s anti-COVID vaccine in children from 5 to 11 years old
A medical panel of experts made up of US government advisers will meet Tuesday to decide whether to authorize Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children between the ages of five and eleven. If the independent experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vote in favor, as expected, the emergency authorization will be in a […]
Vaccines are not gene therapy with unknown adverse effects
Vaccines COVID-19 they are not an experimental gene therapy nor does their administration entail unknown adverse effects, as stated by messages widely spread on social networks that warn about the risk of injecting these drugs into children. A viralized photograph asks those who receive it about the advisability of vaccinating their children with “an experimental […]
PAHO Criticizes Covax Delays in Vaccine Delivery in America
The Pan American Health Organization (OPS) criticized the delays in the delivery of vaccines in the American continent through Covax, the mechanism supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote the equitable distribution of drugs against COVID-19. The deputy director of PAHO, Jarbas Barbosa, regretted that the Covax mechanism “has delivered much smaller quantities […]