BRASILIA (Reuters) – COVID-19 continues to inflict a devastating toll on the Americas, with Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador and Paraguay among the countries with the world’s highest weekly death rates, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday. Cases…
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England to Demand Vaccination Proof for Clubs, Mass Events
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that English nightclubs and other venues with large crowds will require patrons to present proof of full vaccination from the end of September. Clubbers flocked on Monday to the…
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Two Thirds of Indians Have Coronavirus Antibodies, Survey Shows
(Reuters) – Two-thirds of India’s population have antibodies against the coronavirus, according to data released on Tuesday from a survey of 29,000 people across the nation conducted in June and July. The fourth national sero survey included 8,691 children aged…
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Google trends, the COVID-19 vaccine and infertility misinformation
Google searches related to infertility and coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines increased by 34,900% after a pair of physicians submitted a petition questioning the safety and efficacy data of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. Referencing the petition, anti-vaccine activists circulated claims that misconstrued…
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The Lancet: CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is safe and protects against disease, interim analysis
Interim data from a phase 3 trial of a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China (CoronaVac) suggests that two doses offer 83.5% protection against symptomatic COVID-19. The preliminary findings, published in The Lancet and presented at this year’s European Congress of…
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COVID Infections Imperil Indonesias Vaccinated Health Workers, and Hospitals
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian pulmonologist Erlina Burhan is exasperated after another long shift in a jam-packed hospital missing 200 staff infected by the coronavirus despite being vaccinated just months ago. “It’s crazy, really crazy,” she tells Reuters. “More patients but…
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COVID-19 variant could bypass vaccine immunity
California ‘Epsilon’ Covid variant contains three mutations which could allow the strain to bypass vaccine immunity, study finds Spike proteins in the California ‘Epsilon’ variant may be able to evade the neutralizing antibodies in Pfizer and Moderna vaccines Effectiveness of…
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Third Dose of Pfizers COVID-19 Vaccine Improves Protection in Organ Transplant Recipients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A third dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech improves protection against the novel coronavirus in solid-organ transplant recipients, a population particularly vulnerable to more severe COVID-19-related outcomes, according to new study findings. A…
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Scientists say COVID-19 test offers solution for population-wide testing
In an article appearing in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA School of Engineering report real-world results on SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform that uses sequencing to test thousands…
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Study ties milder COVID-19 symptoms to prior run-ins with other coronaviruses
A study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators hints that people with COVID-19 may experience milder symptoms if certain cells of their immune systems “remember” previous encounters with seasonal coronaviruses—the ones that cause about a quarter of the common…
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