The UK started to implement Moderna Inc. vaccinates Wednesday, beefing up Britain’s Covid-19 immunization program amid concerns over AstraZeneca Plc injection and a dose deficit this month. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said …
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Hong Kong and Macao temporarily suspended Covid vaccines made by BioNTech SE due to a packaging defect, dealing a blow to cities’ efforts to revive their pandemic-hit economies. Both governments said Wednesday …
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When Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam rolled up her sleeves for the Asian financial center’s first Covid-19 vaccine last month, she gave strong backing to the injections produced by the mainland Chinese …
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Manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine are ramping up production, churning out far more doses a week than at the beginning of the year, progress that is accelerating mass vaccination campaigns in the …
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Photographer: Zoltan Mathe / AFP / Getty Images Photographer: Zoltan Mathe / AFP / Getty Images AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus vaccine performed better than expected in a clinical trial in the US, providing …
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Photographer: Micah Green / Bloomberg Photographer: Micah Green / Bloomberg When it became clear in early 2020 that the Sars-CoV-2 virus posed a pandemic threat, researchers who had been exploring an innovative …
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The Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine has provided highly variable efficacy rates at four clinical trial sites. Photographer: Dimas Ardian / Bloomberg Photographer: Dimas Ardian / Bloomberg The Turkish trials found that China’s Sinovac …
Read More »A single dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine reduces risk of hospitalization by more than 80%, study shows
A single dose of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduces the risk of hospital admission among older adults by more than 80%, Public Health England (PHE) said, citing a pre-print study. …
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