In Louisville, Kentucky, UPS driver Todd Elble said his vaccine shipment was the "most important load that I’ve hauled" in a 37-year career. His parents contracted COVID-19 in November, and his 78-year-old father died. He said the family speculates that his father got infected while ...
2020, Donald Trump promised to, “produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner” (Reich and Masket2020). Trump added, “Nobody thought it could be done this fast. Normally it would be years, and we did it in a matter of a few months. We...
In the Pfizer trial, among subjects over 75 years, there were zero symptomatic infections in the vaccine group compared to 5 symptomatic infections in the placebo group (the groups contained approximately 775 people each) [2]. Results for the Moderna trial were very similar: there were zero ...
The first two cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy were recorded between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020. Since then, the number of cases in Italy increased steadily, reaching over 26.9 million as of January 1, 2025. The region mostly hit by the virus...
Germany's vaccine commission has approved the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab in people aged over 65. The country previously approved it for under-65s only, citing insufficient data on its effects on older people. That led to public scepticism about its effectiveness, with some Germans spurni...
However, married women under the age of 50 years are required to take a pregnancy test, which may carry an additional charge in private clinics and hospitals. Who is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination in the UAE? The Sinopharm COVID vaccine in the UAE is currently being offered by DHA...
China says it has administered over 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines across the country. China has accelerated its free vaccination campaign since late March. It took only six days for total jabs to climb from 1.2 billion to 1.3 billion. The deputy head of China's...
An important source of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy that is not yet understood is the availability of various COVID-19 vaccines with different characteristics. Due to the global COVID-19 vaccine shortage, the public in many countries may not be able to choose one vaccine over another. People ma...
JERUSALEM, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Israel has approved a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose for people over 60 years old and medical staff, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday. In a televised press conference, Bennett said that the fourth dose of the vaccine, developed by Pfizer, ...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has not been approved or licensed by FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA, under an EUA to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for use in individuals aged 6 months through 11 years of age. The emergency use of this product is on...