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Iceland: Countering the pandemic, bringing life back to normal

Fri, 2021-02-26 18:51 — mike kraft

The Keys to Iceland’s Success Here’s the latest news from the global pandemic. Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Bloomberg.com

While the rest of the world grapples with mass vaccinations and fear of the new coronavirus variants, life in Iceland is getting closer to normal.

Since the beginning of the month, not a single person has been diagnosed with Covid-19 domestically apart from a handful of people who were already in quarantine.

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ANALYSIS: There is a chance to stop the coronavirus from making a big comeback after recent decline

Fri, 2021-02-26 18:39 — mike kraft

Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast.

Is this it, then? Is this the beginning of the end? After a year of being pummeled by grim statistics and scolded for wanting human contact, many Americans feel a long-promised deliverance is at hand.

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WHO release on beginning of COVAX vaccine shipments

Fri, 2021-02-26 17:15 — mike kraft

COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped by the COVAX Facility head to Ghana, marking beginning of global rollout COVAX announces 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine licensed to Serum Institute of India have arrived in Accra, Ghana

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Pharmacists say "pooling" of leftover vaccines would provide more shots

Fri, 2021-02-26 15:47 — mike kraft

Pharmacists say 'heartbreaking' waste of Covid vaccines has a simple solution The FDA says leftover Covid-19 vaccine cannot be combined because neither Moderna's nor Pfizer's products contain preservatives to prevent contamination. NBC News

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OVERVIEW: Europe, Africa Developments--Reuters

Fri, 2021-02-26 15:37 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus European Union leaders will meet on Thursday to try to speed up the production and rollout of vaccines in a race against the emergence of new variants that some fear could bring a third wave of the pandemic across the continent. Reuters Staff U.S.

* The World Health Organization is working with the European Commission to coordinate vaccine donations for other countries on the continent, the head of its European office said.

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Asia Developments, South Korea first shots, China approves 2 more vaccines

Fri, 2021-02-26 15:25 — mike kraft

Asia Today: 1st vaccines reach arms in S. Korea, Hong Kong South Korea administered its first available shots of coronavirus vaccines to people at long-term care facilities Friday, launching a mass immunization campaign that health authorities hope will... AP NEWS

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FDA approves storage of Pfizer vaccine at normal freezer temperatures.

Fri, 2021-02-26 00:16 — mike kraft

FDA gives permission for Pfizer vaccine to be stored at normal freezer temperatures The US Food and Drug Administration handed Pfizer a victory on Thursday, agreeing to allow its Covid-19 vaccine to be transported and stored for up to two weeks at "conventional temperatures" typically found in pharmaceutical freezers. By Eoin McSweeney, Hannah Strange and Jessie Yeung, CNN CNN

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Pfizer vaccine highly effective in real-world study, Israeli researchers say

Thu, 2021-02-25 16:48 — mike kraft

Pfizer vaccine highly effective in real-world study, Israeli An Israeli study of more than 1 million people indicated Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine is highly effective against the virus. Zack Budryk TheHill

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Pfizer to study using booster shot aimed at virus variant

Thu, 2021-02-25 16:32 — mike kraft

Pfizer to study booster shot aimed at virus variant Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Thursday they are beginning a stu Peter Sullivan TheHill

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Thursday they are beginning a study to test whether a third shot of their COVID-19 vaccine will help protect against variants of the virus.

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ANALYSIS of the difficulties in comparing vaccines

Thu, 2021-02-25 00:09 — mike kraft

Why COVID vaccines are so difficult to compare Despite the widespread roll-out of several vaccines, it could be months before they can be ranked. Heidi Ledford nature

Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi knows that a vaccine that offers 70% protection against COVID-19 could be a valuable tool against the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria — especially if that vaccine is cheap and doesn’t have to be stored at extremely cold temperatures. But what if another vaccine — one that is more expensive to buy and to store — was 95% effective?

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