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A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working!

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A key tool in the early pandemic response, monoclonal antibodies are now ineffective against new variants. Immunocompromised patients are especially at risk.

Coronavirus antibodies

IN MARCH 2020, as a mysterious respiratory virus was sweeping the globe, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee tracked down some of the first known Covid-19 patients in North America and asked them for blood samples.

Doctors shipped vials of the blood...

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Problematic vaccine plant still lacks approval after some doses cleared

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The news: A problematic Maryland vaccine plant making Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine still doesn’t have regulatory approvals, even after the Food and Drug Administration declared several batches from the plant were safe.

FDA on June 11 cleared two batches of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine produced at the plant, and cleared a third batch this week.

The FDA has cleared a total of 25 million Johnson & Johnson doses from the Maryland plant, according to The Wall Street Journal. Additional...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/problematic-vaccine-plant-still-lacks-approval-after-some-doses-cleared

Covax: How many Covid Vaccines Have The US And The Other G7 Countries Pledged?

UNICEF has urged leaders of the G7 group of countries – who are meeting in Cornwall this weekend – to speed up the donation of vaccines says a news article Published in BBC.

An open letter, signed by celebrity ambassadors including David Beckham, Andy Murray, and Katy Perry, says Covax is facing an urgent shortfall of 190 million doses.

The charity says G7 countries could donate 20 percent of their vaccine supply between June and August – over 150 million doses – without causing “significant...

https://mfame.guru/covax-how-many-covid-vaccines-have-the-us-and-the-other-g7-countries-pledged/

US removes Defense Production Act ratings for some vaccines

The U.S. recently removed priority ratings from vaccine orders from Novavax, AstraZeneca and Sanofi. (Photo: Novavax)

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The decision: Last week, the U.S. announced it was removing the priority ratings issued under the Defense Production Act for vaccines made by Sanofi, AstraZeneca and Novavax. Orders for other vaccines remain prioritized.

The Defense Production Act, or DPA, allows the president to place priority ratings on government orders, which compels companies to accept and prioritize those orders.  Companies...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-removes-defense-production-act-ratings-for-some-vaccines

Things Under-30s Need To Know About the Vaccine

Things Under-30s Need To Know About the Vaccine, says an article on BBC.

To jab over-18s by the end of July

The vaccine rollout is reaching people in their 20s, with the government aiming to offer a jab to all over-18s by the end of July. What’s more, the Pfizer jab has been approved for children aged 12 and over, although it’s not been decided whether most teenagers will be vaccinated.

Who can get a vaccine now?
  • In England, people aged 25 to 29 can book online, or by calling 119
  • In Scotland,...

https://mfame.guru/things-under-30s-need-to-know-about-the-vaccine/

Pfizer and AstraZeneca Vaccines Effective Against A New Strain

  • The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found.
  • Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.
  • However, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.
  • This compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.

A recent news article published in...

https://mfame.guru/pfizer-and-astrazeneca-vaccines-effective-against-a-new-strain/

168 Major Blood Clots Following The Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine

  • Britain’s medicines regulator on Thursday said there had been 168 major blood clots following a dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.
  • It is a rate of 7.9 clots per million doses, a jump in incidence from the previous week’s figure.
  • This was up from the 100 cases reported last week, when the overall case incidence was 4.9 per million doses.
  • There has been scrutiny of the AstraZeneca vaccine on the issue of the very rare clots and some countries, including Britain, have recommended that only...

https://mfame.guru/168-major-blood-clots-following-the-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine/

Indian Funds Its Vaccine Manufacturers With $610 million

India’s government has approved a 45.67-billion-rupee ($610 million) grant for COVID-19 vaccine makers Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech to boost production capacity, says an article published in Reuters.

Serum Institute of India

SII, the world’s biggest maker of vaccines including the AstraZeneca shot, is funded with 30 billion rupees ($400 million).

SII sought the funds to increase its monthly capacity to more than 100 million doses by the end of May, from up to 70 million...

https://mfame.guru/indian-funds-610-million-to-its-vaccine-manufacturers/

COVID-19 Reported To Have Claimed 3 Million Lives

  • More than 5.2 million new cases were recorded last week , the most in a single week since the pandemic began.
  • Deaths increased for the fifth straight week with the pandemic now officially claiming more than 3 million lives.
  • India has reported more than 200,000 new cases on each of the past six days, nearly 1.5 million in the last week.
  • French city of Nice was forced to close early over the weekend after just 58 people turned up for 4,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Covid-19 infections...

https://mfame.guru/covid-19-reported-to-have-claimed-3-million-lives/

Very few new cases; Planet Sushi hit with tough penalties… plus more

Very few new cases; Planet Sushi hit with tough penalties… plus more

Monaco; the marina and at the centre the Yacht Club de Monaco

Good Morning Monaco – Monday, April 19, 2021

Just 12 new cases over weekend
 Four new cases of coronavirus were notified each day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, while the total number of recoveries over the three-day period was 24 as Monaco’s health situation continued its sharp improvement.

Planet Sushi hit with stiff penalties The operator of the popular Planet Sushi...

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