Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an interview published on Tuesday that he predicts current COVID-19 vaccines will be far less effective against the Omicron variant due to the high number of mutations on the spike protein. “There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level … we had with Delta,” Bancel…
Moderna CEO Says New COVID-19 Vaccines May be Need to Counter Omicron
Moderna CEO Says New COVID-19 Vaccines May be Needed to Counter Omicron
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an interview published on Tuesday that he predicts current COVID-19 vaccines will be far less effective against the Omicron variant due to the high number of mutations on the spike protein. “There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level … we had with Delta,” Bancel…
Omicron Variant Causes Unusual but Mild Symptoms: South African Medical Association Head
The newest variant of concern of the virus that causes COVID-19 causes unusual symptoms but those symptoms are mild, a top South African doctor says. Dr. Angelique Coetzee practices in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, one of the countries where the Omicron CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variant was first detected earlier this month. Coetzee recalled…
Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease From COVID-19: Study
People who recovered from COVID-19 are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published this week. Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using national databases that contain information about patients with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections. The studied population contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, between…
New Analysis Shows Merck’s COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment Has Lower Efficacy
A new analysis of clinical trial results shows that Merck’s antiviral pill for treating COVID-19 is significantly less effective than previously reported in October, the company announced on Friday. In the updated report, the drugmaker said its antiviral treatment drug, which is called molnupiravir, showed a 30 percent reduction in hospitalizations and deaths from the…
The New COVID-19 Variant From South Africa: What We Know So Far
South African scientists discovered a new variant of COVID-19 that they say might be behind the recent surge of infections in the country, resulting in panic across the world as countries fear the international spread of the highly mutated variation. South Africa was experiencing a rate of 200 new daily confirmed cases until recently when…
New CCP Virus Variant Detected in South Africa Sparks Travel Bans by Israel, UK
A new variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has been detected in South Africa, its health minister, Joe Phaahla, announced Thursday. Scientists say the new variant is a concern because it has a high number of mutations and spreads rapidly among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province, he said at…
US COVID-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass Last Year’s: Data
The number of reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States in 2021 surpassed the total in 2020, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Johns Hopkins University. As of this weekend, the number of total reported COVID-19 deaths hit 770,816 since the pandemic stated according to Johns Hopkins. In…
Research Links COVID-19 in Pregnancy With Stillbirths
Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women, and that risk spiked to four times higher after the Delta variant emerged, new government data show. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report Friday that examined 1.2 million deliveries in 736 hospitals nationwide from March 2020 through…
First COVID-19 Patient May Have Been Vendor From Chinese Market: Researcher
The first patient with COVID-19 appears to have been a woman who worked as a vendor at a market in Huanan, China, reviving debate of the possible virus origin. A male accountant who lives over 18 miles from the Huanan Market and had no connection to it was widely reported to be the earliest COVID-19…
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