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Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California signed a requirement last week which says that all students that are eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine, must take the jab, although his own daughter still hasn’t received one, […]

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U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck announced on Monday that it has applied to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of its antiviral coronavirus tablet molnupiravir, The Hill reports. The emergency use permission was sought to treat mild-to-moderate […]

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After the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) key advisers gave it the green light, the first vaccine against malaria that allegedly prevents 30% of severe cases of malaria, could soon be rolled out to billions of […]

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After Moderna announced in early September that it started submitting data regarding its booster shot to the FDA, Johnson & Johnson followed the suit, announcing it’ll seek authorization for a booster shot this week, The […]

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Cosmetic Botox has been banned in England for under-18 year olds.  The new Botulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) Act came into law on Friday. It makes it illegal to administer botox or dermal lip […]

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Apart some paperwork that still remains to be completed, no barriers exist for the Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine to be registered after all the barriers have been cleared with the World Health Organization (WHO), […]

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The interim results of the clinical trial of molnupiravir, Merck & Co Inc’s experimental oral drug for Covid-19, published on Friday show that it reduces the chance of hospitalization or death for people at risk […]

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an urgent recommendation for pregnant women to get their Covid vaccines.  Pregnant people with symptomatic Covid cases have been proven to have a higher risk of admission […]

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Biden administration official said Monday the United States will send over 1.5 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to Egypt through COVAX, Al Arabiya English reports. This 1,612,260 doses donation is part of the initial […]

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Covid vaccination booster shots were rolled out across the United States this weekend.  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized last week a third shot, or a booster shot, of the Pfizer vaccine for the […]

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There is a global inequity of the Covid-19 vaccine distribution, something that came into sharp focus at the UN General Assembly this week.  World leaders spoke about the global vaccine availability, with leaders of African […]

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US President Joe Biden, on Friday, stated that he is planning on getting the booster shot of the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid vaccine, after the FDA (the Food and Drug Administration) and the head of CDC (the […]

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The United Kingdom has started vaccinating 12 to 15 year olds in England and Scotland, the youngest age group yet to receive the Covid vaccination.  Invitations for the age group to be vaccinated are being […]

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A booster shot of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine received two months after the first strengthens protection against moderate illness and severe disease caused by the virus, the pharma company claims as quoted by […]

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Child Covid cases have risen a whopping 240 percent since July in the U.S. A new study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has shown that there is an exponential rise in how […]

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After at least five Afghan evacuees were diagnosed with measles, Biden administration has extended for an additional week the pause on flights carrying Afghan refugees to the United States, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said […]

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As cases and hospitalizations due to Covid-19 are increasing around the country, in large part as a result of the highly contagious Delta variant, unvaccinated Americans are facing new measures President Biden is expected to […]

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GOP Senator Rand Paul and other top republicans have reignited calls for the top White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci to resign or to be fired after newly released documents suggested his agency funded dangerous […]

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Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Michael Oster Jr. has reversed on Monday an earlier decision by Butler County Court ordering West Chester Hospital to give a patient ivermectin for Covid-19, pointing that the hospital cannot […]

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Pointed to insufficient data to show the usefulness of booster shots in the general population even the US Advisory Committee on Immunization (ACIP) emphasized, top US health officials urged Biden administration to freeze its plans […]

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The White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, pointed a news briefing on Thursday that the so called ‘Mu’ variant of the coronavirus that the WHO designated as a “variant of interest” earlier this […]

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