The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement late Thursday saying that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus “do not need a booster shot at this time.” But the two federal health agencies also said that they “are prepared…
CDC, FDA Say People ‘Do Not Need a Booster Shot at This Time’ After Pfizer Intends to Seek OK for 3rd Shot
Pfizer to Ask FDA to Authorize Booster Dose of COVID Vaccine as Delta Variant Spreads
NEW YORK—Pfizer Inc plans to ask U.S. regulators to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker’s top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk of reinfection six months after inoculation and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer Mikael Dolsten…
Israel to Ship 700,000 Pfizer Doses to South Korea in Swap Deal
JERUSALEM—Israel is sending 700,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to South Korea in exchange for a future shipment of vaccines from South Korea to Israel. Under the deal, Israel will transfer the Pfizer vaccines to South Korea in an effort to inoculate more of the Asian nation’s citizens this month. South Korea will send the same number…
The Reasons Why Australians Are Slow to Take up the Vaccine
Commentary Last week, my octogenarian parents received their second AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine jab and were shocked to find that they were among the exclusive six percent Australian club of those fully vaccinated against COVID-19. They were told this figure by their GP, who commented that this was an extremely low figure and congratulated them on…
Why Australians Are Slow To Take Up the Vaccine
Commentary Last week, my octogenarian parents received their second AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine jab and were shocked to find that they were among the exclusive six percent Australian club of those fully vaccinated against COVID-19. They were told this figure by their GP, who commented that this was an extremely low figure and congratulated them on…
Pfizer and Moderna COVID Vaccines May Provide ‘Persistent’ Protection: Study
Researchers have said in a new study that both Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and that produced by the Pfizer-BioNTech alliance may provide lasting protection against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The peer-reviewed study, published on June 28 in Nature, found that the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines made by Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech team induced a…
AstraZeneca and Pfizer Vaccines Effective Against Delta and Kappa Strains of CCP Virus: Study
A new study suggests that COVID-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca and the Pfizer-BioNTech alliance are broadly effective against the highly contagious Delta and Kappa strains of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19. The Oxford University study, of which a peer-reviewed pre-proof has been published in Cell (pdf), sought to gauge…
Millions of Pfizer Jabs to Arrive as More Australians Cancel Second AstraZeneca Dose
Australia’s vaccine rollout plan will be undergoing a major overhaul within weeks as millions more Pfizer doses are set to arrive in the upcoming months. The review was announced at the national cabinet on Monday following the recommendation from Australia’s vaccine safety body to limit AstraZeneca use to people over 60 only. Lieutenant General John…
Australia Stops Recommending AstraZeneca to Under 60s
The Australian government on Thursday changed its CCP virus immunisation advice to recommend that AstraZeneca only be recommended for people aged 60 and over. This comes after experts found new evidence to suggest that there is a much higher risk of a rare but serious blood clot condition known as thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) in the…
Bahrain, UAE Offer Pfizer Shot as Booster to Those Who Received Chinese Vaccine
Bahrain and The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are now urging citizens who have been fully vaccinated with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines to take a shot of the Pfizer vaccine as a booster for protection. At the same time, it’s reported in Serbia that 30 percent of the elderly who have been inoculated with Chinese vaccines have…
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