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July 1, 2022

African Officials: Monkeypox Spread Is Already an Emergency

(Associated Press) – Monkeypox has been sickening people in parts of central and west Africa for decades, but the lack of laboratory diagnosis and weak surveillance means many cases are going undetected across the continent. To date, countries in Africa … Read More

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July 1, 2022

COVID-19 Variant Boosters Won’t Need New Clinical Trials for Clearance, FDA Says

(The Verge) – COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers won’t need to conduct new clinical trials as they develop booster shots targeting the most recent variants of the virus, a Food and Drug Administration official told Reuters. The agency will use clinical trials … Read More

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July 1, 2022

WHO: Monkeypox Cases in Europe Have Tripled in Last 2 Weeks

(Associated Press) – The World Health Organization’s Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched … Read More

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June 30, 2022

Monkeypox’s Unusual Spread in Democratic Republic of Congo Puzzles Researchers

(Wall Street Journal) – Monkeypox, which has put the global health community on high alert since emerging recently in dozens of countries world-wide, is also confounding researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that has contended with the … Read More

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June 30, 2022

Pfizer Seeks FDA’s Full Approval for Paxlovid Covid-19 Pill

(Wall Street Journal) – Pfizer Inc. has asked the Food and Drug Administration to grant full approval of its Covid-19 antiviral pill, a step toward allowing the drugmaker to sell the drug commercially. Pfizer said Thursday that it had filed … Read More

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June 30, 2022

Tweaked COVID Boosters in US Must Target New Omicron Types

(Associated Press) – U.S. regulators told COVID-19 vaccine makers Thursday that any booster shots tweaked for the fall will have to add protection against the newest omicron relatives. The Food and Drug Administration said the original vaccines would be used … Read More

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June 29, 2022

COVID Vaccine Strategy Still Murky After FDA Experts Meet

(Axios) – The COVID-19 vaccine strategy for the fall remains beset with unanswered questions after an FDA expert panel on Tuesday spent hours debating how and whether to update the shots. Why it matters: Time is running short to develop … Read More

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June 29, 2022

Overdose Deaths Behind Bars Rise as Drug Crisis Swells

(Kaiser Health News) – Her son is one of almost 20,000 inmates in the Alabama prison system living in conditions the U.S. Department of Justice has called inhumane. In two investigations, it found that the rampant use of drugs causes … Read More

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June 29, 2022

Norway Was a Pandemic Success. Then It Spent Two Years Studying Its Failures.

(Wall Street Journal) – It turned out that few places outperformed expectations more than Norway.  Not long ago, the World Health Organization published mortality stats from the past two years, which showed that nearly every country’s excess death count spiked … Read More

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Posted in Covid-19, Disaster Ethics, Global Bioethics, highlights, News, Public Health

June 29, 2022

South Korea Approves First Homemade COVID-19 Vaccine

(Associated Press) – Health officials in South Korea on Wednesday approved the country’s first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years or older, adding another public health tool in the fight against a prolonged pandemic. In clinical trials involving … Read More

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