No vaccine has gone from the drawing board to being proven highly effective in such a short period of time. There are still huge challenges ahead, but the announcement has been warmly welcomed with scientists describing themselves smiling "ear to ear" and some suggesting life could be back to ...
A former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called for science and trustworthy information to be at the forefront of the development and approval of vaccines against covid-19. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that a vaccine could be approved before the...
In March 2020 in China, 108 volunteers took part in the world's first clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine. Together with later participants, they would demonstrate the domestically developed medicine's effectiveness, a great achievement of science and courage by the Chinese people....
Thera is a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Hospital and has been in the hospital's designated 'COVID unit' since the beginning of the pandemic. She's been a nurse at VA for 10 years. KARE 11spoke with Thera about getting the vaccine. Thera said that she had colleagues cheering on her way...
The vaccine has been undergoing human tests in China since mid-April. PiCoVacc is not the only COVID-19 vaccine that carries the hope to end the pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Another similar product made by a Chinese military institution is being tested on ...
ndonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so. Indonesia's food and drugs agency (BPOM) greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology's mRNA vaccine, which has been...
The Washington Post Shakespeare Gets First COVID Vaccine 81-year-old William Shakespeare of Warwickshire, England was one of the first patients to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as part of the mass rollout in the UK this week. Shakespeare, no relation to the famous playwright, said that th...
The first batch of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines has departed from Beijing and will arrive in Hungary on Tuesday night. Hungary is the first member country of the European Union to have approved China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, sealing a deal for 5 million doses on January 2...
The first batch of one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Beijing-based pharmaceutical company Sinopharm arrived in Belgrade, Serbia at 9:50 a.m. local time on Saturday. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, local officials, and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia ...
On March 10, 2023, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center ceased its collecting and reporting of global COVID-19 data.For updated cases, deaths, and vaccine data please visit the following sources:World Health Organization (WHO). For more information, visit theJohns Hopkins Coronavirus Resou...