Topic: Coronavirus
‘Three major threats’ to inoculating the world: UN health agency
Amidst some positive news from the World Health Organization (WHO) that both COVID-19 deaths and new cases have recently been on the wane, there are “three major threats” to the UN-led international equitable vaccine initiative, COVAX, that require urgent attention.
US could have prevented 40% of COVID-19 deaths: Report
The United States could have averted 40% of the deaths from coronavirus, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record.
New COVID-19 variants raise questions around vaccines, WHO says
The emergence of new coronavirus variants has raised major questions around whether currently available vaccines will be effective against them, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
US passes 27 million infections
The United States has passed 27 million coronavirus cases, according to figures from Johns Hopkins.
Pfizer withdraws vaccine application in India
Pfizer has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorisation of its Covid vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told Reuters on Friday.
Poor countries will not have wide access to vaccines before 2023
A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit published last week shows that more than 85 poor countries will not have widespread COVID-19 vaccine before 2023. Depending on where you live, the mass rollout of vaccines will take time although developed countries have started vaccinating since the beginning of 2021.
