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Germany will donate 30 million vaccines to poorer countries to offset booster plans

Thu, 2021-08-05 11:54 — mike kraft

Germany will donate 30 million vaccines to poorer countries to offset booster plans Germany will go ahead with coronavirus vaccine boosters from September, despite calls from the World Health Organization to delay booster shots until more people are vaccinated around the world.

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WHO head urges moratorium on vacciine boosters in order to help countries lagging with first shots

Wed, 2021-08-04 17:58 — mike kraft

Head of UN health agency seeks vaccine booster moratorium GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization called Wednesday for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first shots. AP NEWS

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Delta variant raises fears of new and worsening mutations among unvaccinated

Mon, 2021-08-02 09:53 — Naomisfreeman

Delta variant raises fears of worsening mutations The rapid spread of the delta variant is raising concerns among scientists that the coronavirus could mutate into more transmissible or deadlier strains. Justine Coleman TheHill

The fresh fears come as the U.S. vaccination rate has largely plateaued and with much of the world still unvaccinated. Such a large number of people without even one vaccine dose gives the virus more chances to spread, replicate and potentially develop mutations. . .

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CDC warns that delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may make people sicker than original Covid

Fri, 2021-07-30 14:09 — Naomisfreeman

CDC warns that delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may make people sicker than original Covid "The war has changed," CDC officials wrote in a confidential document given to lawmakers this week. Berkeley Lovelace Jr. CNBC

A confidential CDC document said delta is more transmissible than the common cold, the 1918 Spanish flu, smallpox, Ebola, MERS and SARS.

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Two doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca shots effective against Delta variant, study finds

Thu, 2021-07-22 11:24 — Naomisfreeman

Two doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca shots effective against Delta variant, study finds Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed. Reuters Staff U.S.

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World is going into early stages of another wave -- WHO chief

Wed, 2021-07-21 10:16 — mike kraft

WHO chief warns that the world is going into the ‘early stages of another wave’

The world is in the early stages of another wave of Covid-19 infections and death, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.

Speaking to International Olympic Committee members in Tokyo, Tedros said the global failure to share vaccines, tests and treatments is fueling a “two-track pandemic.” Countries that have adequate resources like vaccines are opening up, while others are locking down in a bid to slow the virus’ transmission.

“This is not just a moral outrage, it’s also epidemiologically and economically self-defeating,” Tedros said, adding that the longer the pandemic drags on, the more socioeconomic turmoil it will bring. “The pandemic is a test and the world is failing.”

He warned that “19 months into the pandemic, and seven months since the first vaccines were approved, we are now in the early stages of another wave of infections and deaths.” Tedros added that the global threat of the pandemic will remain until all countries have a handle on the disease.

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