COVID-19 vaccines have been created on a number of platforms and are still being developed. Nucleic acid (DNA, RNA) vaccines, viral vector vaccines, inactivated vaccines, protein subunit vaccines, and live attenuated vaccines are among the COVID-19 vaccine modalities. At this time,...
ExistingCOVID-19vaccines are likely to be less effective against the emerging Omicron variant, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel predicted on Tuesday. "There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level ... we had with [the] Delta [variant]," he told theFinancial Times, ...
A number of Covid vaccines have been developed, tested and authorized for emergency use in the past year. The three vaccines currently in use in the West — fromModerna,PfizerandBioNTech, andAstraZenecaand the University of Oxford — are being made predominantly in the U.S., U.K. or EU...
A recent study conducted by Public Health England found that the available vaccines were “highly effective” at preventing hospitalization after two doses.
COVID-19 vaccines were developed with an unprecedented pace since the beginning of the pandemic. Several of them have reached market authorization and mass production, leading to their global application on a large scale. This enormous progress was achie
and the number of new additional cases is drastically increasing. Development of therapies to treat the infected cases and prophylactic agents including vaccines that are effective towards different variants are crucial to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic. Owing to the fact that there is a high mortali...
hint that immunity against COVID-19 may be fragile and wane relatively quickly, with implications not just for the risks facing recovered patients, but also for how long future vaccines might protect people. There will certainly be more clinical data in the direction available in the near future...
Although COVID-19 was originally characterized as a respiratory disease, recent findings have shown lingering side effects in those who have recovered, and
Likewise, the treatment is symptomatic in nature. Apart from the already discovered treatments being applied to combat COVID-19 and its associated complications, scientists are trying hard to develop new potential therapeutic strategies, consisting of monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, peptides, interferon-...
Vaccines are a huge achievement of modern-day science and have played a crucial role in reducing the very worst impacts of COVID. But are the vaccines we currently have able to deal with the newest COVID variants? The current COVID vaccines are all based on the genetic building blocks, or...