January 20, 2021
(Reuters) – Chinese state media outlets have run a series of articles criticising Western COVID-19 vaccines in the past week, including Pfizer’s, while touting China-made vaccines as safer and more accessible. The reports have come as China’s vaccines, which are … Read More
January 20, 2021
(Medscape) – California’s state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna vaccine version because some people received medical treatment for possible severe allergic reactions. Dr. Erica S. Pan on Sunday recommended providers stop … Read More
January 20, 2021
(Bloomberg) – In the U.S., more than 14 million Covid-19 shots have been given since mid-December, mainly to health workers, the elderly and those at high risk. To defeat the pandemic and fully revive the economy, children will also have … Read More
January 19, 2021
(STAT News) – Government guidelines and news headlines alike have grouped those who are breastfeeding and pregnant together when talking about Covid vaccine safety. But as people try to make their own decisions without safety data, it might help to … Read More
January 19, 2021
(ABC News) – A specialist clinic in Poland said Tuesday it is ready to admit and treat a Pole who is at the center of a life-support dispute in Britain. The middle-aged man, identified only as R.S., was removed from … Read More
January 19, 2021
(Wired) – Jugenburg is a celebrity surgeon, a doctor turned influencer who shares his masterworks with his followers in real time. In his operating room, showmanship and sutures get equal play. Jugenburg seems to revel in the way social media … Read More
January 18, 2021
(STAT News) – Data from large clinical trials, which generally include tens of thousands of volunteers, aim to demonstrate a vaccine’s effectiveness and probe its potential side effects. This is important information to have in hand before giving injections to … Read More
January 18, 2021
(Nature) – It was a time of contagion and quacks. A Machiavellian power-broker keen to protect his position defied tradition to sponsor controlled experiments on the most marginalized of people. It was 1524. The Italian surgeon Gregorio Caravita offered Pope … Read More
January 15, 2021
(Nature) – Long-awaited results about the effectiveness of a leading Chinese COVID-19 vaccine were tinged with disappointment and confusion this week. But researchers say the vaccine could help reduce deaths from the disease. Researchers in Brazil reported that CoronaVac, developed … Read More
January 15, 2021
(ABC News) – The European Union’s drug regulator said Friday that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers in a cyberattack have been not only leaked to the web, but “manipulated” by hackers. The European Medicines Agency said that an … Read More
