Israel is planning to expand its turbo-speed coronavirus vaccination drive to children, pending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
Many woke corporations and wealthy individuals have donated millions of dollars to President Joe Biden’s Inaugural Committee, totaling a sum of $61 million.
The Chinese drug company Fosun Pharma filed for approval to distribute the Chinese coronavirus vaccine developed by American company Pfizer and European partners BioNTech in China, state media noted on Sunday, a sign that Beijing increasingly distrusts its homemade products.
Israelis were no longer required to wear masks outside on Sunday, in another step on the path back to normality as the country’s aggressive vaccination drive saw coronavirus rates take a steep plunge.
Individuals who have been “fully vaccinated” with the Pfizer vaccine may need to receive a third shot in the near future, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla stated this month.
Chinese state media reported on Tuesday that Chinese mRNA coronavirus vaccines will enter Phase III clinical trials in May and will be ready to ship 120 million doses by the end of the year.
Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his program by reacting to an announcement earlier in the day that health officials were recommending to halt the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
China’s top disease control official admitted Sunday the country’s domestic coronavirus vaccines have low effectiveness and the Communist government is considering how to give them a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers
Hong Kong government authorities ejected a private clinic from the city’s coronavirus vaccine drive on Tuesday for suggesting that its patients choose the coronavirus vaccine developed by American company Pfizer over a Chinese-made option.
Reuters reported Wednesday that Pfizer has asked the government of India for “faster regulatory clearance and freedom on pricing on exports” to begin manufacturing its coronavirus vaccine in India.
Russian intelligence services are using online platforms to spread lies about the safety and efficacy of two of the three coronavirus vaccines U.S. regulators have approved, a State Department spokesperson confirmed Monday.
Lockdowns are set to become a thing of the past for Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday as more venues reopened as part of the government’s coronavirus exit plan.
Chinese health authorities and state media aggressively defended “Coronavac,” a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate by the Chinese firm Sinovac, on Wednesday after a 63-year-old Hong Kong man died this week following the administration of his first dose.
The Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm announced on Wednesday that Phase III clinical trials found their Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate to be 72.51 percent effective in preventing infections.
The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is 85 percent effective in reducing transmission after a single dose, a “groundbreaking” new Israeli study showed, lending credence to the notion the second shot can be delayed.
China’s dogged efforts to raise safety questions about coronavirus vaccines not created in China continued in the state-run Global Times on Friday, with an article that suggested Pfizer’s vaccine could be risky for pregnant women.
President Joe Biden told Americans they should keep wearing a mask, even after they get vaccinated for the coronavirus.
Biden’s false claims echoes repeated false statements by members of his administration that they were “starting from scratch” on the vaccination effort.
President Joe Biden postponed a planned visit to Michigan on Thursday, citing a snowstorm in the region of Washington, DC, according to reports.
Out of half a million Israelis who have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, only 544 people were diagnosed with the coronavirus — four of whom were severe cases — amounting to a 93 percent efficacy rate, an Israeli healthcare provider said.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many Europeans are desperate for a coronavirus vaccine. But not just any vaccine.
The White House announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden will be tested for COVID-19 every two weeks, despite receiving the vaccine.
China’s People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, accused America’s coronavirus vaccination program of suffering from “long-term structural racism” in a column Monday, citing American public health personality Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The states of West Virginia, Alaska, and South Dakota have the best records for administering COVID-19 vaccines so far, according to data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union.
The European Union, which used the border between British Northern Ireland and the EU’s Republic of Ireland as an all-important bargaining chip in the Brexit talks, broke the rules it demanded for the province and introduced a hard border in an attempt to remedy its vaccine failures.
Several Oregon healthcare workers stranded in the snow decided to offer coronavirus vaccinations to their fellow stranded drivers so the vaccines would not go to waste.
A University of Hong Kong survey published Thursday revealed a nearly 20-percent drop in interest among Hong Kong residents in receiving any vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus between November and January, and that less than one-third of those living in the city would take a vaccine China developed.
Biden clarified he expected the delivery of enough vaccine doses for 300 million Americans by early fall. He said he would increase weekly available vaccines to states from 8.6 million doses per week to a “minimum” of ten million doses per week.
Israel has seen a 60 percent drop in hospitalizations for people aged 60 and over in the three weeks after receiving the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine, an Israeli healthcare provider has shown, and only 0.015 percent of people were infected with the coronavirus in the week after receiving their second shot.
Brussels has ordered all drugs manufacturers producing vaccines against the Chinese coronavirus in the bloc to inform them before exporting to non-EU nations, giving the bloc powers to stop exports to countries including the UK.
January marked Israel’s deadliest month of the coronavirus outbreak so far, with 998 deaths, according to numbers released by the Health Ministry.
LONDON (AP) — Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000.
BEIRUT — Lebanon decided Thursday to prolong a total lockdown by two weeks to stem an unprecedented rise in coronavirus cases and protect its collapsing health sector.
Norway has upped its estimate of the number of people who have died after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to 29, Bloomberg reported this weekend.
A few days after attempting to dismiss disappointing test results from Brazil on China’s Sinovac vaccine candidate for the Chinese coronavirus, Chinese state media turned to attacking Sinovac’s American competitors Pfizer and Moderna, calling for a worldwide ban on Pfizer’s vaccine after 23 elderly Norwegians died, ostensibly from reactions to the Pfizer shots.
Norway’s health authority reported Thursday that at least 13 people have died from complications after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
“Thanks, man,” Biden said after the shot was administered.
Israel on Sunday rolled out the second stage of its vaccination drive, the world’s fastest, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing people over the age of 60 — of which 72 percent have received the first dose — would receive a booster shot while the over-50s would receive the initial dose.
An NHS doctor has claimed that patients are refusing the American/German Pfizer-BioNTech injection to “wait for the English one” instead.
