People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are still getting infected with the delta variant, but global health officials said the shots have protected most people from getting severely sick or dying. “There are reports coming in that vaccinated populations have cases of infection, particularly with the delta variant,” Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health […] Read more
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday a late-stage trial failed to provide evidence that its Covid-19 antibody therapy protected people who had contact with an infected person from the disease, a small setback in its efforts to find alternatives to vaccines. The study assessed whether the therapy, a cocktail of two types of antibodies, could prevent adults who […] Read more
Controversy over AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has sparked some investor concerns about its stock, according to Jefferies – but it’s not all bad news for the British pharmaceutical company. Australia, the Philippines and the African Union have become the latest to either curb or abandon planned purchases of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus shot due to possible links to […] Read more
Pfizer and BioNTech have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women, the companies said on Thursday. Pregnant women are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, and many public health officials have recommended some women in high-risk professions take coronavirus vaccines even without proof […] Read more
The discovery of a new coronavirus strain on Danish mink farms has led to the introduction of strict public health measures in the north of the country, with other European nations also responding to the outbreak. It comes after a warning from Denmark’s national authority for the control of infectious disease, the State Serum Institute, that if […] Read more
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have provided an updated estimate of the incubation period for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Initial estimates made during the early stages of the pandemic ranged from around 4 to 7 days. However, numerous reports have since emerged, estimating an incubation period […] Read more
Right now, medicinal cannabis is still hard to afford and hard to get. Though this referendum vote is about recreational use of cannabis, the outcome will affect Kiwis who live with lasting pain – a whopping 20 percent of us. Pain is the most common reason why people see a GP. One in five New […] Read more
New research suggests that catalase, a naturally occurring enzyme in humans, plants, and animals, can suppress the replication of the new coronavirus in rhesus monkeys. The results also indicate that this low cost enzyme could dampen the inflammatory response that occurs in severe COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect in the United […] Read more
For a subset of Covid-19 survivors, the illness has lingered. Slammed by fatigue, pain, headaches and more, they’re just not getting better. What’s going on, and what could help? Data from the UK’s Covid Symptom Study app suggests 12 percent of people who are infected with the virus, have symptoms for more than a month. Photo: 123RF […] Read more
Early results from trials of Russia’s potential coronavirus vaccine show no major negative side effects, a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet revealed Friday. Doctors involved in the trials conducted “two open, non-randomised phase 1/2 studies at two hospitals in Russia,” on 76 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 60, the Lancet article […] Read more
