Enlarge / A Merck sign stands in front of the company’s building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey. (credit: Getty | Kena Betancur) In a 13-to-10 vote, advisors for the Food and Drug Administration narrowly supported authorizing Merck’s Thor-inspired antiviral pill molnupiravir for use against severe COVID-19. The FDA’s panel of advisors—the Antimicrobial […]
Enlarge / Dr. Silvia Gelvez gestures after receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at Colombia University Clinic in Bogota on February 18, 2021. (credit: Getty | RAUL ARBOLEDA ) As long as there have been vaccines against COVID-19, there have been arguments for why people shouldn’t get those vaccines. One of the […]
Enlarge / Vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are seen during the opening of a vaccination centre in Cyprus, on March 22, 2021. (credit: Getty | Etienne Torbey) Exceeding expectations, AstraZeneca’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine appeared highly effective against symptomatic and severe disease in a new late-stage trial conducted partly in the US. The company said […]
Expand / Russian President Vladimir Putin speech the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, through teleconference telephone, at Moscow on September 22, 2020. (charge: Getty | MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV) Some United Nations employees are probably cleaning up in their Russian–especially the way to say”Thank you, but no thanks” from the best way possible. On […]