Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The chances that unvaccinated family members will be infected or hospitalized with COVID-19 drop sharply if even one family member is vaccinated. The chances are reduced…
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Pfizer COVID Vaccine Antibodies May Disappear in 7 Months: Study
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Antibody levels may wane after 7 months for people who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a new study published on the bioRxiv preprint server. In…
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Exclusive-White House presses U.S. airlines to quickly mandate vaccines for staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is pressing major U.S. airlines to mandate coronavirus vaccines for employees by Dec. 8 and showing no signs of extending the deadline, four sources told Reuters on Friday.FILE PHOTO: Rows of empty seats of…
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Australian state makes COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for athletes
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state has included professional athletes in a vaccination mandate that will require about 1.25 million “authorised workers” to have two COVID-19 shots by the end of November. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews announced the health order…
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What Will Happen to NBA Players Who Won’t Get Vaccinated?
The National Basketball Association announced Wednesday that players who haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccine won’t be paid for games that they miss due to local orders that require shots. “Any player who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates…
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Flu Vaccination, Ending Lockdown, Vaccine Production in Latin America: COVID-19 Global Weekly Highlights
These are the global coronavirus stories you need to know about this week. UK positive COVID-19 tests rose by 12.2% over 7 days as of Monday, at a rate of 350.9 per 100,000 population. However, deaths were down 8.8%, and hospitalisations…
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Singapore reports highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases
FILE PHOTO: People dine at a food center during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Singapore, September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su(Reuters) – Singapore’s health ministry reported 2,478 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic….
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Russia may allow access to unregistered COVID-19 vaccines, report says
FILE PHOTO: Tatiana Kadochnikova, a GP, waits for recipients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination point opened in a Leroy Merlin hardware store in Belgorod, Russia August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Polina NikolskayaMOSCOW (Reuters)…
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Researchers model impact of changes in contact rate patterns on COVID-19 incidence in US
Researchers in the United States have studied changes in contact rate patterns in the United States over the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and modeled the impact that these changes have had on the incidence of cases…
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Human coronavirus replicates in bats without using the spike protein
Researchers in Singapore have conducted a study showing active replication of a human coronavirus in bats that occurred without the viral spike protein binding to host cell receptors. One key interaction required for coronaviruses to enter host cells is the…
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