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Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-24-2021
December 24, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.98 MBRemember all those healthcare workers the government wanted fired if they didn’t get vaccinated? Turns out they now realize that created a real problem. With the Omicron wave coming and hospitals understaffed, federal officials loosened the rules that health care workers have to stay out of work 10 days if they test positive. They can now get back it after seven days if they test negative and don't have symptoms. Yesterday we told you about the Pfizer at home treatment pill getting approve...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-23-2021
December 23, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.06 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 23rd, 2021. How about a little good news for the holidays? Modeling by scientists in Scotland predicted 47 Omicron patients should have been hospitalized by December 19 if infection patterns were the same as Delta. So far, there have been 15 admissions. There’s more. The first UK data of its kind shows Omicron appears to have a 20%-25% reduced chance of a hospital visit and at least a 40% lower risk of being adm...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-22-2021
December 22, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.07 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 22nd, 2021. The World Health Organization’s top official in Europe urged governments to get ready for a “significant surge” in cases due to Omicron, already dominant in several countries. And making the assumption it will be as severe as Delta, the official said it will push already stretched health systems further to the brink. Deaths in the region are 40% higher than a year ago, but no one can or will say if t...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-21-2021
December 21, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.88 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 21st, 2021. Moderna said a booster of its vaccine looks like it protects against Omicron in lab testing and this current version of the shot can still be a "first line of defense against Omicron." With Omicron spreading as fast as it is, the company didn’t see where there would be time to develop an Omicron-specific vaccine. A win for Novavax. The EU gave the go ahead to its vaccine for use in the 27-nation...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-20-2021
December 20, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.67 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 20th, 2021. How long will we have to wear masks on airplanes? How about forever? As in never again will we be able to fly without our face being covered. That’s what Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Meet the Press. He can’t see the end of mask wearing on planes ever, regardless of air purification systems touted by airline CEOs. The Netherlands began a full lockdown that will last through January 14. The Prime Minister ...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-17-2021
December 17, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.88 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 17th, 2021. After the meeting we told you about yesterday, the CDC has come out and said most Americans should get Pfizer or Moderna instead of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The advisers said a blood clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths after J&J vaccinations — while the other top vaccines don't have that risk and appear more effective. J&J will stay on the market because the condition is rare, but...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-16-2021
December 16, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.56 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 16th, 2021. The Los Angeles school district is the latest in California to delay forcing thousands of unvaccinated students to return to distance learning. Officials decided enforcement would disrupt the education of about 27,000 unvaccinated students, overwhelm the independent study program which already has staff shortages, and risk losing teachers. A federal appeals court panel lifted a nationwide ban against t...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-15-2021
December 15, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.75 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 15th, 2021. Just one month after it was first detected in South Africa the CDC says Omicron now makes up about 3% of cases in the U.S. Delta still dominates at 97% of all Covid cases analyzed, but Omicron is gaining ground. It’s getting cloudier when the U.S. even had its first Omicron case. But the CDC confirmed Omicron in a symptomatic patient back on November 15. No matter the variant, the virus seems to...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-14-2021
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.74 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 14th, 2021. US health officials say Omicron does appear able to evade some of the immune protection of antibodies induced by vaccines but…preliminary data shows a booster raises protection high enough that it does well against the variant. Almost 80% of confirmed Omicron cases in the US are fully vaccinated. But about a third also had a booster. Omicron is now in 30 states. The masks are back on in Californi...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-13-2021
December 13, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 13th, 2021. While our Johns Hopkins number is not quite there yet, and with more deaths in 2021 than in 2020, the United States has now reportedly reached over 800,000 coronavirus-related deaths. Ahead is a potential surge in cases due to winter and the highly transmissible, but by all reports milder, Omicron variant. The new death toll is more than the entire population of North Dakota. It took 111 days for U.S. d...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-10-2021
December 10, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.89 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 10th, 2021. The number of COVID deaths in the US has been horrific, but researchers are again saying those deaths have been vastly undercounted. Especially among Native, Hispanic and Black Americans. New data at the county level for 2020 and January through October of this year gives more detail than ever, including where someone died, what other causes of death were on the death certificate, and whether a body ...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-09-2021
December 09, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.23 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 9th, 2021. Starting off with a little reassurance. Cases of Omicron have been reported by 21 countries in the EU. All of them have been either asymptomatic or mild with no deaths reported thus far. And the head of the CDC said out of the 42 known cases of Omicron in the U.S., only one has been hospitalized. In South Africa, reports are that even those who are landing in the ER are there for unrelated reasons but...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-08-2021
December 08, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.53 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 8th, 2021. The World Health Organization's office for Europe said kids 5 to 14 now account for the highest infection rates in the region. Overall cases and deaths have more than doubled in the last two months in the 53-country region, and the Omicron variant has been seen in 21 of those 53 countries. Early data out of South Africa suggests the Pfizer vaccine appears to be less effective against Omicron. Rese...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-07-2021
December 07, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.83 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 7th, 2021. The Mayor of New York City announced that all private employers, big and small, must now require their workers to get vaccinated, the most sweeping mandate of any big city or state in the U.S. And you must get the injection, there is no testing alternative. That will add about 184,000 businesses, including mom and pops, to those placed under previous mandates, The European Union's drugs agency re...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-06-2021
December 06, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.94 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 6th, 2021. At least 12 U.S. states have now identified Omicron cases, but US health officials remain more concerned about Delta. It’s accounting for 99.9% of all new infections and those infections are going up. Results from studies to gauge the severity and transmissibility of Omicron are expected in a few weeks. Cases of Omicron remain mild but that is not true of Delta. In Brussels, Belgium, police turned wate...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-03-2021
December 03, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.29 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 3rd, 2021. As expected, the US administration rolled out some measures to fight COVID and the new Omicron variant into winter. All in-bound international passengers must test within 24 hours of departure, and masks will be required on all planes and public transportation through March 18. Also, businesses will be urged expedite worker vaccine and testing mandates, and Americans with private health insurance can ...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-02-2021
December 02, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.59 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 2nd, 2021. The UN Secretary-General has called the travel restrictions being placed by countries like the United States on one region like South Africa not only ineffective, but travel apartheid. The Omicron variant is already in 24 countries around the world, and as it turns out, it appears it didn’t originate in South Africa anyway. The Netherlands had cases a week before two flights arrived from South Africa ...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 12-01-2021
December 01, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.46 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for December 1st, 2021. If you’re a non-US citizen coming into the US, prepare for some tougher testing requirements. And no, it doesn’t matter if you’re vaccinated or unvaccinated. Details should be rolled out tomorrow, but one policy being considered is requiring all air travelers to the U.S. be tested within one day of boarding their flight. Omicron continues to go worldwide. Japan confirmed its first case, a fully v...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 11-30-2021
November 30, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.46 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 30th, 2021. No matter how the new Omicron variant turns out, the World Health Organization would like to see more globalization when it comes to pandemics. Specifically, some sort of international accord to prevent, prepare, and respond to future outbreaks. A draft resolution stops short of calling for a treaty or legally binding instrument, but some are saying that’s what’s needed. Scientists are hard at wo...
Coronavirus vaccine and COVID variant updates for 11-29-2021
November 29, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 29th, 2021. A lot of fear is being generated around the new coronavirus variant, now called Omicron. So first some good news or at the very least potential good news. The chair of the South African Medical Association, who was one of the first to notice the new variant, said symptoms appear to mild and treatable at home. Fatigue, body aches and headaches, not even a loss of smell or taste and oxygen levels remai...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-26-2021
November 26, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.98 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 26th, 2021. The news we’ve been dreading, another variant of COVID-19 that is more mutated, more contagious, and more capable of evading the vaccines we have thus far. It’s called B.1.1.529 and it’s been identified in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Botswana. Senior scientists describe it as the worst variant they’d seen since the start of the pandemic with 32 mutations in the spike protein. That’s twice as many as...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-25-2021
November 25, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.22 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 25th, 2021. A human subject is testing a new experimental vaccine. And that human subject is Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’s already fully vaccinated, and he got his booster shot four days ago. But now he’s taken an experimental nasal version of the Sputnik V vaccine. He said so far, he hasn’t experienced any unpleasant effects after taking the nasal vaccine. The U.S. President will require essential,...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-24-2021
November 24, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 24th, 2021. The EU’s version of the FDA said Merck has put in its request to authorize its coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to treat COVID-19. They expect a decision to be made on molnupiravir within weeks. Earlier this month, Britain became the first country in the world to OK the drug. It is just speculation and guesswork, but the World Health Organization's Europe office says its projections sh...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-23-2021
November 23, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 23rd, 2021. So you’re thinking about getting a booster shot. But you’re also thinking “how long will this one last?” Well the answer is, I know this is a shock, they don’t know. However, a small study out of Northwestern University is claiming neutralizing antibody levels against COVID decreased 25-fold after a booster compared to 10-fold nine months after getting the original doses. So they think the booster mi...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-22-2021
November 22, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.32 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 22nd, 2021. In many of our minds, the year 2020 stands out as the most difficult where COVID-19 is concerned. However, in the United States, the number of 2021 coronavirus deaths have surpassed the total for 2020. And that is with the nation’s government and public health leaders having access to vaccines. The number will most definitely rise in the remaining weeks of the year. But the country’s answer is, ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-19-2021
November 19, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.32 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 19th, 2021. It’s known for its festive Christmas markets but health officials in Germany say they could be heading for a terrible Christmas. New measures were approved yesterday to rein in record infections and some German states are considering mandatory vaccinations for some professional groups like medical staff. Again, it is good to be Pfizer. The U.S. government will pay the company $5.29 billion for 10...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-18-2021
November 18, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.3 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 18th, 2021. The US administration was counting on making businesses their enforcers for vaccination mandates. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is suspending said enforcement as ordered by the courts. OSHA had originally given employers with more than 100 employees until January 4 to comply under threat of thousands of dollars in fines. U.S. taxpayers are paying drugmakers billions of dol...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-17-2021
November 17, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 17th, 2021. Why is Europe struggling so much? We may have at least a partial answer. A new variant has been detected in several countries there that has some mutations scientists haven’t seen before. It’s called B.1.X and it’s been found in France, the UK, Switzerland, Scotland, and Italy. It’s not known yet if the mutation means it’s as or any more dangerous than Delta. Yesterday we told you that some stat...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-16-2021
November 16, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 16th, 2021. A couple of openings to tell you travelers about. India started letting fully vaccinated foreign tourists enter the country on regular commercial flights. Infections are falling and vaccinations rising there. Visitors haven’t been allowed in since March 2020. Or maybe Cambodia’s more to your liking. It reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers two weeks earlier than planned and has one of the w...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-15-2021
November 15, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.15 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 15th, 2021. Austria has locked down…at least for the unvaccinated. We’ve seen it all before, new infections are surging, and ICUs are strained. In fact, Austria has one of Europe's highest infection rates and is the first to reinstate restrictions on daily movements. Austria has one of the lowest vaccination rates in western Europe at 65%, but that’s well above the United States’ 58-59%. More vaccines are d...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-12-2021
November 12, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 12th, 2021. It is just not looking good in Europe. Germany had a record-high number of daily cases yesterday as new measures are being considered. One of the country's top virologists warns another 100,000 could die in the next few months if the vaccination rate doesn't quickly accelerate. To the south, in Austria, that country’s chancellor is stepping up threats of lockdowns for the unvaccinated as new case...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-11-2021
November 11, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 11th, 2021. So far, the White House is very happy with the whole get kids vaccinated thing. They say it’s off to a strong start, but they worry that so was the adult vaccination effort, then it peaked and lost momentum. About 900,000 kids aged 5 to 11 will have gotten their first dose in their first week of eligibility. The World Health Organization gave us some bad news, coronavirus deaths rose by 10% in Eu...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-10-2021
November 10, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.45 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 10th, 2021. Pfizer’s ready for booster shots for all adults, but are U.S. regulators? The request is in to allow anyone 18 and older to get boosters of the Pfizer vaccine. Up to now just older Americans and groups especially vulnerable to the virus have had access to dose number three. The FDA says it will move quickly on the expansion if warranted. A big change in Britain. All health care staff who work wit...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-09-2021
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.39 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 9th, 2021. Citizens in Russia went back to work yesterday after a mandated, nine-day break to help cope with the surge of cases there. But they’re doing so as the record-breaking surge of infections and deaths continue. In fact, statistics show the work stoppage had no effect on easing cases. Meanwhile Japan reported no daily deaths from COVID Sunday for the first time in 15 months, and infections are rapidl...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-08-2021
November 08, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 8th, 2021. Things have gotten stricter in Los Angeles. One of the strictest vaccine mandates has gone into effect today. Proof of vaccination is required for entry into a wide variety of businesses. Restaurants, malls, theaters – both live and movie, nail places, hair places, gyms, yoga studios, museums, convention centers, and the list goes on. First offense gets a business a warning, but fines could later run ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-05-2021
November 05, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 5th, 2021. As we reported yesterday, over 750,000 American lives have been lost to COVID. No other even in the country’s history, including the four-year-long Civil War, has generated more death and loss. 750,000 is also more than the populations of Vermont, Wyoming, or Alaska, which means we’ve lost the equivalent of an entire state. The World Health Organization is getting increasingly concerned about Euro...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-04-2021
November 04, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 4th, 2021. A new policy for the U.S. puts the burden of vaccination on employers. A temporary emergency rule mandates that businesses that employ 100 or more people make their employees get vaccinated or test them regularly. It’s the first time a federal standard deemed a respiratory virus an occupational hazard outside of health care. Some unknowns remain, such as how employers are supposed to enforce the manda...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-03-2021
November 03, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 3rd, 2021. And now parents have a big decision to make. The Pfizer vaccine was given final clearance by U.S. regulators for children ages 5 to 11. Distribution can begin immediately. And those shots might be administered at doctor’s offices, pharmacies, or even schools. The formula is one-third the dose of the adult shot. Eastern Europe is still the area to watch. Russia's reported record daily infections or...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-02-2021
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 2nd, 2021. Another horrific milestone has been crossed. The global death toll from COVID-19 has now topped 5 million people. This has happened in less than two years, and claimed victims from every corner of the globe, every color, every nationality, in both poor and wealthy nations. In fact the US, EU, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle- or high-income countries — account for one-eighth of the world’s popula...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 11-01-2021
November 01, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for November 1st, 2021. If you think it’s important, for science and public health and safety reasons, to actually know how this COVID-19 pandemic started, you may as well forget it. U.S. intelligence officials said they can’t conclude the origin. They don’t know if it was from an animal, they don’t know if it was from a lab leak, they don’t know if the virus was genetically engineered…nothing. And that’s where they’ll leave...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-29-2021
October 29, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 29th, 2021. As regular listeners probably know, rates of cases, hospitalizations and deaths have gone down significantly in the US since Delta peaked in September. But now health experts have a problem. Complacency and the believe it’s all over. Winter is coming, many kids still can’t get vaccinated, and the holidays mean lots of gatherings. Plus, many believe vaccination rates need be around 80-85% of adults – a...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-28-2021
October 28, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 28th, 2021. A judge in NY said no, she will not pause a vaccine mandate that starts Friday for city employees. A police union had requested a temporary restraining order. She did however order city officials to appear in court Nov. 12 to defend the vaccine requirement against a union lawsuit. As of Tuesday, 73% of police department personnel had gotten at least one dose, and the fire department’s vaccination rate...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-27-2021
October 27, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.85 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 27th, 2021. As expected, FDA advisors unanimously voted to endorse the Pfizer vaccine for kids five to 11. Federal authorization could come in the next few days. The pediatric version would be equal to a third of an adult dose. The panel said the benefits outweigh the risks that include a rare heart-related side effect seen in teens and young adults. Things continue to look rough in Eastern Europe. The daily ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-26-2021
October 26, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.63 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 26th, 2021. New travel guidance from the US government. Most travelers to the United States are required to be vaccinated, however if you’re from a country that has a shortage of vaccines, you for some reason don’t have to be. Airlines must get contact info on passengers for contact tracing. And starting Nov. 8, all travelers must be tested, even if you’re fully vaccinated, to get on a plane bound for the US. ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-25-2021
October 25, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 25th, 2021. Sure you got one dose of Johnson & Johnson, or two doses of Pfizer or Moderna, but you may soon no longer be considered fully vaccinated. The head of the CDC said it may update its definition of what constitutes full vaccination as initial vaccine effectiveness wanes and booster shots are being promoted. Say what you want about it, but the cottage industry of scaring pregnant women about the vacci...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-22-2021
October 22, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 22nd, 2021. Pfizer says a booster shot of its vaccine boosts prevention of symptomatic cases back up to 95.6%. And this data was compiled when Delta was the prevalent strain. The CDC seems to be booster backers. Yesterday we told you they’ve decided mixing and matching boosters and original vaccines is okay. And, after saying those who got the Pfizer vaccine months ago are already eligible for a booster, they...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-21-2021
October 21, 2021 03:00 - 4 minutes - 6.62 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 21st, 2021. Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be the leader of a country during a global pandemic. A leaked document suggests a Brazilian congressional panel is ready to recommend mass homicide charges be brought against President Bolsonaro over how he handled the virus. The charge is he deliberately allowed it to spread in hopes of achieving herd immunity. As we reported yesterday, millions of Russians are un...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-20-2021
October 20, 2021 03:00 - 5 minutes - 7.32 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 20th, 2021. Cases are going down worldwide, but in many countries, you certainly wouldn’t know it. For instance, some scientists are calling on the U.K. government to reimpose social restrictions and speed boosters as infection rates, which are Europe’s highest, keep going up. Russia had another daily record of deaths, and the country might declare a nonworking week. Romania hit daily records for infections and d...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-19-2021
October 19, 2021 03:00 - 4 minutes - 6.77 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 19th, 2021. 84-year-old Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who became the country's first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, died from complications of Covid-19. He was fully vaccinated. Powell had a cancer of a type of white blood cell. France's High Authority for Health decided to no longer allow the Moderna vaccine to be injected as a booster dose against Covid-19...
Coronavirus 411, COVID-19, Delta variant and coronavirus vaccine info for October 18th, 2021.
October 18, 2021 03:00 - 5 minutes - 7.06 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 18th, 2021. The FDA’s advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend Moderna booster shots for emergency use authorization. That moves millions in the U.S. closer to booster eligibility. The decision now goes to the FDA, which should make a final ruling in a few days. Moderna’s boosters are expected to be a half dose. Almost 1,000 people descended on Times Square Saturday to protest the vaccine and vaccine man...