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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 […]
Between the high cost and testing hurdles, molnupiravir may not be the “game changer” against COVID. Read More
Enlarge / Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin speaks during a mask-burning event at the Idaho Statehouse on March 6, 2021, in Boise, Idaho. (credit: Getty | Nathan Howard) Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin grabbed the reins Tuesday by banning COVID-19 vaccination “passports” and mandatory COVID-19 testing in the state while Gov. Brad Little was away […]
Just 2.3% of people in low-income countries have gotten a shot. Read More
Enlarge / A city-operated mobile pharmacy advertises the COVID-19 vaccine in a Brooklyn neighborhood on July 30, 2021, in New York City. (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt ) Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York, announced Monday that it fired just a sliver of its staff for failing to comply with the […]
Enlarge / Boxes of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Florida. (credit: Getty | Paul Hennessy) Johnson & Johnson plans to seek authorization for a booster dose for its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine early this week, according to a report by The New York Times. J&J is the last to apply […]
Enlarge / California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with 7th grade students at James Denman Middle School on October 01, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that the state will add COVID-19 vaccines to the list of immunizations students are required to get to attend […]
Enlarge / A Merck sign stands in front of the company’s building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey. (credit: Getty | Kena Betancur ) An oral antiviral drug appears to cut the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 by roughly 50 percent in people newly diagnosed with the particular infection and at […]
The disease is threatening the world’s largest pig industry. Read More
Enlarge / Medical staff transfer patients to Jin Yintan hospital on January 17, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. (credit: Getty ) Among thousands of the earliest survivors of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, nearly half had at least one persistent symptom a full year after being released from the hospital, according to a new study published […]