COVID-19 vaccine

Will you get the COVID vaccine if your company requires it?

A recent FreightWaves online poll of truckers found that 65% of 1,120 respondents have already been vaccinated against COVID-19 but that nearly 73% of the holdouts would rather find a new employer than get the “jab.”

Jeremy Rewoldt, founder of the StopTheTires2020 Facebook group, told FreightWaves recently that his group of around 70,000 members largely opposes the push for government vaccine mandates.

“We don’t want the government to interfere and dictate what we have to inject into our bodies...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-you-get-the-covid-vaccine-if-your-company-requires-it

UK Confident, Vaccine Works Against Indian Variant

  • The UK has “increasing confidence” that Covid-19 vaccines work against the Indian variant of the virus, the health secretary has said.
  • Scientists believe that the variant is more transmissible and cases of it nearly tripled to 1,313 in the past week in England.
  • But Matt Hancock said early lab data showed vaccines remained effective.
  • He said the majority of those in hospital in Bolton – a hotspot for the Indian variant – were unvaccinated.

A recent news article published in the BBC by Doug...

https://mfame.guru/uk-confident-vaccine-works-against-indian-variant/

InterManager Acquires 1m J&J Vaccines For Seafarers

InterManager, the association for third party managers, has come good on its vow at the end of last month to solve the riddle of how to vaccine the world’s seafarers, reports Splash247.

Taking measures

Frustrated with the lack of international coordination and progress to get seafarers jabbed with Covid-19 vaccines, senior management at the association said on April 27 they would pursue their own path to get crews vaccinated.

InterManager revealed this week it has successfully negotiated with...

https://mfame.guru/intermanager-acquires-1m-jj-vaccines-for-seafarers/

Top Scientists Question The Need For COVID-19 Booster Shots

Top scientists question the need for COVID-19 booster shots, says an article on Yahoo news.

Covid -19 Vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question when, or whether, such shots will be needed.

More than a dozen influential infectious disease and vaccine development experts said there is growing evidence that the first round of global...

https://mfame.guru/top-scientists-question-the-need-for-covid-19-booster-shots/

COVID-19 has mixed effects on financial results for health care distributors

Insulated boxes move down assembly line at distribution center.

This is an excerpt from the May 6, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.

The results: The three major health care distributors for the U.S. reported big declines in profits during the first quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Revenues, however, remained relatively flat for AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson.

During the pandemic, distributors ramped up activities related to COVID-19, such as transporting vaccines,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/covid-19-has-mixed-effects-on-financial-results-for-health-care-distributors

New COVID Drug Developed By DRDO Receives Emergency Authorization

India’s regulator has approved a new, oral COVID-19 drug that promises to reduce hospitalisation time and oxygen dependency for moderate to severe cases, reports the Economic Times.

The first 10,000 doses are expected to be available by next week.

Effective COVID-19 vaccine

The 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation has proved to be effective in three phases of trials on COVID-19 patients and can be easily mass produced, officials said, adding...

https://mfame.guru/new-covid-drug-developed-by-drdo-receives-emergency-authorization/

Politicians, CEOs spar over supply chain impact of sharing intellectual property

(Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich)

This is an excerpt from the May 6, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.

The decision: On Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines. 

“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” Tai said, according to a statement.

U.S. support doesn’t...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/politicians-ceos-spar-over-supply-chain-impact-of-sharing-intellectual-property

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