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Trucks carrying the recently licensed Covid-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson began being distributed en route Monday to states and sites that have been searching for more doses to increase vaccines. McKesson …
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TUSKEGEE, Ala. – Black residents of this southern city say the pain and mistrust fostered by a decades-long syphilis study here are inseparable from their personal deliberations about whether they should take …
Read More »J&J Covid-19 Single-Dose Vaccine Effective in All Demographics, FDA Scientists Say
Johnson and Johnson‘s JNJ -2.01% The single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was effective “in all demographic subgroups” in a late-stage study, as scientists from the US Food and Drug Administration plan to report to …
Read More »China Deploys Covid-19 Vaccine To Build Influence, With US On The Sidelines
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: A cavernous new airport cargo terminal in Ethiopia’s capital is the center of a vast supply network that China is assembling to accelerate delivery of its coronavirus vaccines and …
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It is very rare for someone to become infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease a second time, but the few confirmed cases of reinfection tell us that immunity to the …
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Healthcare workers unions in Europe say thousands of their members are refusing to take one of the three Covid-19 vaccines available in the region due to concerns about efficacy and reports of …
Read More »China’s Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy increases its influence in Europe
Some small European governments are turning to China for Covid-19 vaccines as European Union acquisitions stumble and production setbacks from Western vaccine makers hamper the continent’s fight against the pandemic. The trend …
Read More »In Covid-19 Diplomacy, India Emerges as a Vaccine Superpower
NEW DELHI – When an Indian Navy plane landed in the archipelago nation of Seychelles last month, the country’s foreign minister and other senior officials lined the tarmac to receive their precious …
Read More »SoftBank will make a $ 900 million investment in Pacific biosciences
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest $ 900 million in California Inc.’s Pacific Biosciences genetic sequencing company, as the Japanese tech conglomerate steps up a new public equity investment effort. PacBio, as …
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