America’s battle with COVID-19 is descending into further turmoil, with its top infectious diseases expert warning the nation is “on the brink” of total disaster.
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America’s battle with COVID-19 is descending into further turmoil, with its top infectious diseases expert warning the nation is “on the brink” of total disaster.
Inoculations with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab could start in less than a week
President Trump has called on the Food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine developed by pharma firm Moderna, after promising deliveries in early December. Trump boasted that his vaccine push was a “modern day miracle.”
Moderna said it got the final needed results over the weekend that suggest its vaccine is more than 94% effective.
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has made major waves with his “no jab, no fly” policy but if action isn’t taken, the airline industry is dead.
COVID-19 has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories. Now a new apparently evil plan has been uncovered, except this one has a curious twist.
In other coronavirus news: The FDA gives greenlight to the first home testing kit, and the Pfizer vaccine is more effective than first realized.
Pfizer plans to seek authorization for the vaccine within days, leaving the shot on track to go into distribution by the end of the year if health regulators permit.
A new vaccine that protects against Covid-19 is nearly 95% effective, early data from US company Moderna shows.
The announcement comes after Pfizer and Russia institute said their vaccines are 90 percent and 92 percent effective respectively.
Awaiting fuller safety data later this month, Moderna said it plans to seek federal authorization for shot by early December
Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk has expressed doubts about the accuracy of coronavirus tests, after claiming to have been both diagnosed and cleared of the disease on the same day.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday imposed a new round of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus as the infection rate climbed and hospitalisations soared in the state that was the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak in its early stages.
China is once again mass testing an entire city for the coronavirus amid a regional outbreak in Xinjiang province.
One in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, the World Health Organization said, at a special meeting of WHO leaders.
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has said that neither he nor his family will likely take future coronavirus vaccines even when they are readily available, saying the pandemic has “diminished [his] faith in humanity.”
France has reported a record daily increase in coronavirus cases as the country struggles to contain a fresh surge in infections.
One of the most promising coronavirus vaccines has stumbled, delivering a reality check about the odds of clinical development and the safety risks involved.
Jumping on a plane and going on holiday looks and feels very different to how it did at the start of 2020.