£29m boost for Covid battle in bid to speed up development of vaccines that protect against new virus variants Government concerned third virus wave could be triggered by new variant Matt Hancock is investing £29.3m in series of new laboratories in Wiltshire They develop vaccines that protect against virus variants much more quickly By Sophie … Read more
Biden calls on nearly 40K pharmacies to start giving COVID vaccines to Americans this WEEK – even if they don’t have appointments President Joe Biden called on all pharmacies that have partnered with the government to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines without appointments He also requested that state-run clinics offer walk-in vaccinations for Americans It comes as the average number … Read more
President Joe Biden is planning to announce on Tuesday that coronavirus vaccines will be sent directly to rural areas in the hopes of getting more employees and residents immunized. According to NPR, the Biden administration has crated a list of physicians who are based in ‘socially vulnerable’ communities. These are neighborhoods where many people live … Read more
No evidence that drinking alcohol after a Covid vaccine interferes with how it works, UK regulator says The MHRA says there is no evidence alcohol lowers the body’s response to jabs Drinkaware had previously suggested people abstain from booze for two weeks NHS patient literature and advice from manufacturers does not mention alcohol By Joe … Read more
Britain has now dished out more than 50million Covid vaccines since the mammoth roll-out began in December, according to official figures. Department of Health bosses today posted another 250,000 jabs, meaning 34.6million people across the UK have had one and 15.5million – or 30 per cent of all adults – are fully inoculated. Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the … Read more
Britain has now dished out more than 50million Covid vaccines, according to official figures. NHS England bosses today posted another 210,000 jabs, meaning 34.6million people across the UK have had one and 15.4million – or 30 per cent of all adults – are fully inoculated. Department of Health chiefs have yet to provide the final figures for … Read more
China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a ‘global public good’ to showcase his country’s benevolence. Hundreds of millions of doses have been despatched abroad after being sold to 28 countries and given away free to more than 60 poorer or strategically important … Read more
China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a ‘global public good’ to showcase his country’s benevolence. Hundreds of millions of doses have been despatched abroad after being sold to 28 countries and given away free to more than 60 poorer or strategically important … Read more
The near-apocalyptic scenes and harrowing accounts coming out of India are heartbreaking. Desperate people, frantically trying to save the ones they love against impossible odds. Bodies, truly, piled high. Virtually no family untouched. In Britain, with plummeting hospitalisations and infections and a vaccine programme close to delivering herd immunity, it might feel as if it’s … Read more
The White House has said that states will be receiving nearly 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses this week. This is a seven percent increase from the approximately 28 million doses allocated over the previous two weeks and a 248 percent rise from the 8.6 million doses being sent weekly when President Joe Biden took office. … Read more