Category: COVID-19 vaccine

Nigerian CCP Virus Variant Found in Southern China’s Guangdong Province

As CCP virus variants grow in number, scientists are increasingly concerned about whether vaccines will remain effective despite the new strains. On March 12, southern China’s Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the B.1.525 strain had been detected in two cases. This is the first time it has been discovered in…


Danish Woman Who Died From Blood Clot After AstraZeneca Shot Had ‘Unusual Symptoms’, Agency Says

COPENHAGEN—A 60-year-old Danish woman who died of a blood clot after receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine had “highly unusual” symptoms, according to the Danish Medicines Agency. The woman had a low number of blood platelets and clots in small and large vessels, as well as bleeding, it said. A few similar cases were found in Norway…


Biden Directs States to Make All Adults Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine by May 1

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he will direct states to make all adult Americans eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1. The administration will make sure that every adult can get the vaccine by increasing the number of vaccination sites by May 1, Biden announced in his first primetime address to the…


Denmark, Norway, Iceland Suspend AstraZeneca COVID Shots After Blood Clot Reports

COPENHAGEN—Health authorities in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland on Thursday suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shots following reports of the formation of blood clots in some people who had been vaccinated. Austria earlier stopped using a batch of AstraZeneca shots while investigating a death from coagulation disorders and an illness from a pulmonary embolism….


The Biggest COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics? Frontline Health Care Workers

Commentary What do frontline health care workers and first responders know about COVID-19 vaccines that politicians and their public health advisers don’t? According to a January analysis by Gallup, 51 percent of health care workers and first responders polled in December were unconvinced of the merits of getting vaccinated, even if the vaccine “was free,…


Orange County Gets Another Supply Injection with Arrival of Latest COVID-19 Vaccine 

Orange County has begun incorporating the Johnson and Johnson vaccine into its inoculation efforts. Some of the 16,000 doses received March 5 are being distributed at various point of distribution (POD) sites, while others will go to local teachers. The FDA authorized the Johnson and Johnson vaccine on Feb. 27, making it the third federally-approved…


Austria Suspends AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Batch After Death

ZURICH—Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday. “The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with a…


Austria Suspends Use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Batch After Death

ZURICH—Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on March 7. “The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with…


US Bishops Discourage Catholics From Receiving Johnson & Johnson Vaccine If Alternatives Available Over Abortion Link

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement on March 2 encouraging Catholics to avoid getting the latest adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson if alternatives are available. In Thursday’s statement, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, chairman of the conference’s Committee on Doctrine, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the conference’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, recommended…


Citing Lack of Data, Polish Health Minister Does Not Recommend Chinese Shot

WARSAW—Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Wednesday he did not currently recommend using Chinese company Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine because of a lack of data. As in other European Union countries, Poland’s vaccination program has been hampered by delays in deliveries from producers, such as AstraZeneca and Pfizer, and on Monday an aide of Polish…