Current Chinese COVID-19 vaccines can offer protection against the mutated variants found in India, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday. Shao Yiming, a leading physician-scientist and immunologist at the China CDC, said at Thursday's press conference that China...
"Chinese authorities are closely tracking the virus, and as soon as there are mutated variants that the existing vaccines can't deal with, we will have new vaccines available," Shao said. In a recent case, five Chinese travelers were confirmed to be infected with variants detected in India a...
“We are tracking that very, very closely,” he said Thursday. “I’m sure countries are still trying to finish vaccinating their first round of the vaccines that were received.” Nkengasong remained optimistic, though, that a deal announced on Monday for African countries to acquire the...
More than half of the 29.1 millionvaccine dosesreceived by African nations so far have come through the global COVAX initiative, which aims to ensure that low- andmiddle-income countrieshave fair access to vaccines. COVAX has largely relied on distributing the AstraZenecavaccine, because it is c...
vaccine effectiveness remains high months after their second shot, suggesting the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines remain 65-75% effective even against asymptomatic infection.Public health officials have repeatedly emphasized that the vaccines provide strong protection against serious illness, hospitalization and ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inviting applications to support population-based active surveillance for varicella, herpes zoster and other viral vaccine- preventable diseases. Public and private nonprofit organizations, including colleges, universities, hospitals, community-based organizations...
CDC scientists also confirmed, however, that the Louisiana virus samples are closely related to candidate vaccine strains already developed for bird flu. Yet, Rasmussen questioned why those vaccines are not being used to protect high-risk groups, such as farmworkers, wh...
Dr. Joanna Dolgoff, a Paulding County pediatrician said she is not seeing much pushback to the MMR vaccine. Parents are generally as open to this vaccine as for other routine childhood vaccines, such as a vaccine for polio. Dolgoff said she takes the time to reassure parents who may be...
Outside of COVID-19, which without the vaccines courtesy of Operation Warp Speed would still be a dire situation, if India is any indication, things have gone south on several key fronts for the 46th president. That begs the question, why did the CDC and the Biden coronavirus tas...
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