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• The New York Times reports that many widely used coronavirus vaccines are unlikely to prevent infections with the Omicron...
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• The BBC reports seeing minutes leaked from a meeting of the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. During the...
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• Kineret, an immunosuppressant, has been authorised across the EU to treat adult COVID-19 patients with pneumonia requiring supplemental oxygen...
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• Reuters reports that monoclonal antibodies from Regeneron and Eli Lilly are ineffective against the Omicron variant, while Evusheld (AstraZeneca)...
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• The University of Hong Kong issues a press release detailing the work of researchers from its Faculty of Medicine,...
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• Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest private health insurance administrator, issues a press release covering data from the first three...
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• Coronavirus cases in the US, where only 61 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, surpass 50 million....
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• The US death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 800,000. During 2021, more than 450,000 people – a majority of whom...
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• A pre-print paper compares vaccine-induced neutralization titers against different variants of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron and an early strain, called...
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• Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has suggested the need for a fourth vaccine dose to fight Omicron, saying “…real-world data...
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• During an interview, Dr Rochelle Walensky, head of the US CDC, announced that most of the 40 people in...
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• UNICEF releases Preventing a Lost Decade: Urgent Action to Reverse the Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Young...
