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WHO recommends reduced dose Pfizer COVID vaccine for under 12s

Fri, 2022-01-21 11:45 — mike kraft

WHO recommends reduced dose Pfizer COVID vaccine for under 12s The World Health Organization on Friday recommended extending the use of a reduced dosage of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11 years old. Mrinalika Roy,Manojna Maddipatla Reuters

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WHO: COVID boosters should start with most vulnerable

Fri, 2022-01-21 10:19 — mike kraft

WHO: COVID boosters should start with most vulnerable GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says that coronavirus vaccine boosters should now now be offered to people, starting with the most vulnerable, in a move away from its previous insistence that boosters were unnecessary for healthy adults and an acknowledgment that the vaccine supply is improving globally. AP NEWS

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EXPLAINER: What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic?--AP

Thu, 2022-01-20 10:55 — mike kraft

EXPLAINER: What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic? Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an “endemic” disease , but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over . AP NEWS

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Analysis: How Omicron highlights fading hope of herd immunity from COVID

Thu, 2022-01-20 10:49 — mike kraft

Analysis: How Omicron highlights fading hope of herd immunity from COVID The Omicron variant, which is spreading far faster than previous versions of the coronavirus, is not likely to help countries achieve so-called herd immunity against COVID-19, in which enough people become immune to the virus that it can no longer spread, leading disease experts say. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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Global vaccine program COVAX low on funds, seeks $5.2B to buy new doses

Wed, 2022-01-19 13:15 — mike kraft

Global vaccine program COVAX low on funds, seeks $5.2B GENEVA (AP) — The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines equally between rich and poor countries asked Wednesday for $5.2 billion in funds to be able to keep buying doses in coming months. AP NEWS

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The UN-backed program known as COVAX has delivered just over 1 billion doses since shipments started nearly a year ago.

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WHO counts 18 million virus cases last week as pace of omicron slows

Wed, 2022-01-19 09:11 — mike kraft

WHO counts 18 million virus cases last week as omicron slows GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases globally rose by 20% last week to more than 18 million, marking a slowdown in the surge caused by the omicron variant's spread, according to the World Health Organization. AP NEWS

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U.S. would seek global approach to updating Covid-19 vaccines, official says

Tue, 2022-01-18 10:14 — mike kraft

U.S. would seek global approach to updating Covid-19 vaccines, official says If the Food and Drug Administration decides to update Covid-19 vaccines to take better aim at Omicron or other variants, it is unlikely to go it alone. Helen Branswell STAT

IF the Food and Drug Administration decides to update Covid-19 vaccines to take better aim at Omicron or other variants, it is unlikely to go it alone.

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Poorer nations reject over 100 million COVID shots because many close to expiry

Thu, 2022-01-13 11:47 — mike kraft

Poorer nations reject over 100 million COVID shots as many close to expiry Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a UNICEF official said on Thursday. Francesco Guarascio Reuters

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CDC weighs recommending N95 or KN95 masks instead of cloth masks against omicron variant

Tue, 2022-01-11 10:29 — mike kraft

CDC weighs recommending better masks against omicron variant The agency is likely to recommend that people who can consistently wear N95 or KN95 masks, rather than cloth masks, should do so. Washington Post

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Covid-19 is "still a way off" of being endemic, WHO official says

Tue, 2022-01-11 09:31 — mike kraft

Covid-19 is "still a way off" of being endemic, WHO official says Covid-19 cannot yet be referred to as an endemic disease, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN CNN

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Dr. Catherine Smallwood, Covid-19 incident manager at the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, told a virtual WHO Europe news conference Tuesday that Covid-19 is “still a way off” endemicity.

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