February 7, 2021 0 AstraZeneca Vaccine Less Effective Versus South African Variant With the world in a race between the spread of coronavirus variants and vaccinating millions, AstraZeneca announced Saturday that ...
February 6, 2021 0 China Conditionally OKs Public Use of 2nd COVID-19 Vaccine China has conditionally approved a second COVID-19 vaccine for public use.The National Medical Products Administration said in a ...
February 6, 2021 0 Australian Scientists Developing Technology to Predict Path of Bushfires Technology that can predict bushfires is being developed in Australia, one of the world’s most fire-prone countries. It will ...
February 6, 2021 0 AP Analysis: US Federal Executions Likely a COVID Superspreader As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with ...
February 6, 2021 0 WHO Calls for Drug Companies to Share Vaccine-Making Facilities The head of the World Health Organization called Friday for pharmaceutical companies to share manufacturing facilities to ...
February 5, 2021 0 WHO: COVID-19 Vaccination Inequities Becoming Apparent The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that 75% of all COVID-19 vaccinations worldwide have been given in just 10 ...
February 5, 2021 0 Will COVID Vaccination Passports Happen and What Will They Mean? As more people get the COVID-19 vaccine, health care experts are tackling the issue of how someone can prove they’ve been ...
February 5, 2021 0 Global Coronavirus Infections Reach 104M with 2.2M Deaths The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Friday that there are more than 104 million global GOVID-19 cases ...
February 5, 2021 0 US Rushes to Catch Up in Race to Detect Mutant Viruses Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. fell behind in the ...
February 5, 2021 0 Johnson & Johnson Seeks US Vaccine Approval for Emergency Use Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it is seeking approval for its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine from the U.S. Food and ...
February 5, 2021 0 US Supports COVAX But Hasn’t Increased Funding The Biden administration on Thursday underscored the importance of supporting COVAX, the global mechanism that aims to deliver ...
February 5, 2021 0 Africa’s 2nd Pandemic Wave Sees Higher Death Rates, Vaccine Delays As African nations wait for hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to arrive, health officials are concerned about a ...
February 4, 2021 0 WHO Says COVID-19 Hurting Efforts to Control Cancer In a report marking World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization says COVID-19 is having a negative impact on cancer control ...
February 4, 2021 0 New COVID-19 Case Disrupts Australian Open Preparations Strict COVID-19 measures are being reintroduced in the state of Victoria after a 26-year-old Australian Open hotel worker tested ...
February 4, 2021 0 British to See if Different COVID-19 Vaccines Can Be Used in Same 2-Dose Regimen Testing began in Britain on Thursday to determine if different COVID-19 vaccines can be used together in a two-shot ...
February 3, 2021 0 1.1 Billion-Dose Vaccine Deal Announced for Poorest Countries UNICEF has announced a deal with the Serum Institute of India to produce 1.1 billion doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford and Novavax ...
February 3, 2021 0 Israel Immunizes Against Coronavirus as Palestinians Wait Israel has announced it is opening its coronavirus vaccination campaign to anyone over the age of 16, as one-third of the ...
February 3, 2021 0 Citing COVID-19 Concerns, Fauci Warns Americans Against Super Bowl Parties The top U.S. infectious disease expert has another warning for Americans: Don’t attend Super Bowl parties amid the COVID-19 ...
February 3, 2021 0 SpaceX Rocket Prototype Crash Lands During Test The test launch and landing of a SpaceX Starship prototype Tuesday ended in a crash for the second time since December. The ...
February 3, 2021 0 Mexico Grants Emergency Use of Russia Vaccine to Fight Coronavirus Mexico’s regulatory agency approved emergency use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, shortly after Deputy Health Minister ...
February 3, 2021 0 Study: China’s New Coal Power Plant Capacity in 2020 More Than 3 Times Rest of World’s China put 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity into operation in 2020, according to new international research, ...
February 2, 2021 0 Biden Announces Increase in COVID-19 Vaccines The White House announced Tuesday new measures to increase the rate of vaccinations against COVID-19, including distributing ...
February 2, 2021 0 Britain Battles Mutant Coronavirus Outbreak Britain has launched an emergency program of door-to-door testing in several parts of the country, following the discovery of ...
February 2, 2021 0 HOLD for 2PM — South Africa Sees 2 Good Breaks in Coronavirus Fight South Africa’s president delivered a rare shot of good news to people in the continent’s coronavirus hotspot: the nation’s ...