Vaccine

For this vaccine chaser, the second time was the charm.On her first attempt to get a Covid-19 shot last month, 28-year Leah Robson arrived at a Los Angeles city park at 4 a.m., waited all day with hundreds of other hopefuls, and wound up going home without the vaccination.Leah Robson.NBC LAShe tried again the next…

Closer look — South African data on AstraZeneca vaccine is as iffy as it is scary Beth Mole – Feb 8, 2021 11:21 pm UTC Enlarge / Vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020.Dismal preliminary data on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in…

Laboratory technicians work at Valneva headquarters in Saint-Herblain, western France, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom—not the European Union, as might be expected for a company on the banks of the…

This story was first published by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom based in the UK.Senam Agbesi has been trying to make the best of lockdown in London. “I’ve done lots of Zooms, lots of walks,” he said. The 34-year-old National Health Service (NHS) manager believes he could get the vaccine this month,…

As a shortage of Covid-19 shots slows vaccination efforts in the West, groups that haven’t been given high priority are increasingly jostling for the right to get immunized first. In most countries that are currently deploying vaccines, those most at risk of dying or getting seriously ill from the virus—nursing home residents and those caring…

LONDON — AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine has similar efficacy against the British coronavirus variant as it does to the previously circulating variants, the university said Friday.The variant, first identified in Kent, southern England, is more easily transmissible, prompting many countries to restrict travel to Britain. It also led to a spike in infections…

Since December, when the process began, the approach to Covid-19 vaccinations could be described with a simple mantra: a shot is a shot. The two authorized vaccines in the US—made by Moderna and Pfizer—are remarkably similar and remarkably successful. Both involve mRNA, which are snippets of genetic code that serve as warning signals for the…

Oxford researchers discovered that their vaccine candidate can prevent COVID-19 transmission in addition to reducing the risk of complications and deaths. The scientists also concluded that administering the two vaccine doses 12 weeks apart will increase the efficacy compared to giving the two shots less than 6 weeks apart. The Oxford vaccine is available in…

The impact of the shortage of Covid vaccines adds to the inequity in access and distribution. By Andrea ArroyoTwitter Today 8:30 am February 4, 2021 Check out all installments in the OppArt series. Keep Reading Ad Policy