Health officials are wrestling with who should be first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Is it time to redefine what’s fair?
So there is naturally competition about who will get the first doses of this. But the point is, we can produce enough vaccine for everybody in the world, so the scientific development of the vaccine is something that we can celebrate as a human species. As I no...
Vaccine clinical trialThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to scale up around the world, costing severe health and economic losses. The development of an effective COVID-19 vaccine is of utmost importance...
Your iPhone will make it easier to find a location to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. Apple announced Tuesday it will display on its Apple Maps app places where users can go to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The data comes from VaccineFinder, a free, online service developed by Boston Children...
What if I’m planning to get a COVID-19 vaccine? That’s a good idea. Remember, COVID-19 and the flu are different viruses and require different vaccines for protection. The good news: Research says that you can get both the COVID and flu vaccines, and doing so will not reduce your...
Clinica Biblica offers drive-through testing (Servicio de AutoCovid) for the RT-PCR test and antigen test at their main hospital in downtown San Jose (see location here) and in Santa Ana (see location here). The sample is taken right from your car so you don’t need to get out. Dri...
China reached an important new level of vaccine development with the start of the phase three clinical trial of an inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. It is the first vaccine of its kind to reach a late-stage, mass-scale human trial, accord...
Since severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered, there have been questions surrounding the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and more recently the COVID-19 vaccine, on men’s health and fertility. Sig
Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, never patented his vaccine or profited from its creation because he wanted the vaccine to save as many lives as possible. The New York-born virologist and medical researcher famously risked his own life and the lives of his family memb...
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