Coronavirus vaccine

Fauci Hopeful on COVID Vaccine Distribution Target After Snowstorm Delay

  • The White House said that it expects to catch up this week on coronavirus vaccine distribution.
  • The distribution got delayed due to winter snowstorms in the US
  • Despite the storms, 2 million of the 6 million delayed vaccines have been delivered.
  • Fauci has said that they can catch up quite well despite the setback

According to a CNBC report, the White House press secretary said that they will deliver the vaccines this week after being derailed by winter snowstorms.

“We expect to rapidly catch up...

https://mfame.guru/fauci-hopeful-on-covid-vaccine-distribution-target-after-snowstorm-delay/

New UK Coronavirus Spreads To At Least 60 Countries, Says WHO

  • The UK coronavirus strain has spread to at least 60 countries, the World Health Organization reported.
  • The arrival of mass inoculation drives in the United States, Europe and Asia had brought hope that the end of the epidemic was in sight.
  • Deep concern over new variants of the deadly pathogen has triggered governments around the world to toughen constraints.

According to WHO, the faster-spreading UK coronavirus variant has now been found in at least 60 countries, 10 more compared with a week...

https://mfame.guru/new-uk-coronavirus-spreads-to-atleast-60-countries-says-who/

Johnson & Johnson One Shot COVID Vaccine 90% Effective

According to a Mercury News report, early stage trials of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental coronavirus vaccine show it generated an immune response in nearly all volunteers, with minimal side-effects, after a single dose.

The company expects to report details of more advanced trials later this month and is hoping to apply for authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration soon after.

1-2 Doses Found Effective

Researchers who tested the vaccine in a combined Phase 1-2 trial — mostly meant...

https://mfame.guru/johnson-johnson-one-shot-covid-vaccine-90-effective/

COVID-19 Not Going Away, Likely To Stay Forever: Warns Moderna CEO

  • Stephane Bancel, CEO of COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned that the virus will be around “forever.”
  • Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that COVID-19 will become an endemic disease.
  • “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away,” Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has warned that the novel coronavirus might never disappear and there are high chances of it becoming an endemic...

https://mfame.guru/covid-19-not-going-away-likely-to-stay-forever-warns-moderna-ceo/

Commentary: How will COVID-19 vaccine reach developing countries?

Bill Gates

As global COVID-19 vaccine distribution enters its second month, concern is rising that high-income countries will hoard supplies for their own populations, causing delays in distribution to poorer countries.

Latin America has experienced a third of the world’s deaths from the coronavirus, and Africa has now passed 2 million cases. Quarantines and business shutdowns have hit especially hard in poor countries, where people live on the margins even in prosperous times. It is believed that many...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-how-will-covid-19-vaccine-reach-developing-countries

US Revamps Vaccination Criteria Amid Surging Deaths

  • U.S. federal officials agreed to send states additional coronavirus vaccine doses requested by several governors, as the country tries to ramp up the pace of inoculations.
  • Officials also recommended that states broaden vaccination eligibility to people as young as 65 or who have other chronic health conditions.

The Trump administration moved on to accelerate vaccinations of Americans against COVID-19, releasing the rest of the doses it had been keeping in reserve and recommending states...

https://mfame.guru/us-revamps-vaccination-criteria-amid-surging-deaths/

South African COVID Strain Can Defeat Vaccines

In a major development Oxford’s Sir John Bell who was behind the Oxford COVID vaccine development said that African strain of the coronavirus is more concerning than the UK Kent one and it  may beat the vaccines approved for use, reports the Daily Mail UK. 

What is it?

Vaccines believed to be effective against infectious UK variant VUI-202012/01 . But South African variant has substantial changes in the structure of the protein’.

Coronavirus vaccines could be ineffective against the...

https://mfame.guru/south-african-covid-strain-can-defeat-vaccines/

Russia ships Sputnik vaccine to Argentina on passenger jet

A blue-and-white jet comes in for landing with wheels down.

Sixty-three years after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the space race by launching Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite, Russia is in the middle of  the COVID-19 vaccine race.

Last week, passenger carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas transported the first batch of 300,000 Sputnik V doses from Moscow to Buenos Aires on a cargo-only flight. The “V” stands for vaccine.

The Airbus A330-200 carried nine insulated containers with 59 cases of the two-dose vaccine, a representative for...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/russia-ships-sputnik-vaccine-to-argentina-on-passenger-jet

Moderna Vs Pfizer – How the 2 COVID Vaccines Are Competing?

The United States now has two vaccines available for emergency use and the Science News Erin Garcia de Jesus sought to find out the difference between the two. 

Here’s an excerpt from her analysis. 

Moderna & Pfizer Authorization

On December 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized Moderna’s vaccine for emergency use in people 18 years or older. The decision follows a thumbs-up vote from a panel of experts that convened on December 17 to discuss vaccine data that the biotechnology...

https://mfame.guru/moderna-vs-pfizer-how-the-2-covid-vaccines-are-competing/

FedEx transports COVID vaccine to U.S. military bases overseas

A woman in Army fatigues gives a shot in the arm to another woman with her back facing the camera.

The U.S. Department of Defense is ready to ship doses of Moderna Inc.’s (NASDQ: MRNA) COVID-19 vaccine to personnel outside the U.S. with the help of FedEx Express.

The bulk of the vaccine doses that the Defense Logistics Agency receives during the initial phase of distribution will be transported by FedEx (NYSE: FDX) directly to overseas military bases, spokesman Patrick Mackin said. The others will be cross-docked at overseas military medical distribution hubs run by the U.S. Army Medical...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/fedex-transports-covid-vaccine-to-us-military-bases-overseas

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