Above Photo: A protest against the UK government’s refusal to back the TRIPS waiver proposal held in London on October 12. Jess Hurd/ Global Justice Now. From October 9-13, activists organized actions to pressure the EU and various European countries to support the TRIPS waiver proposal, pointing out that people continue to die because governments do not want to stand up to Big Pharma. Health activists gathered at Geneva’s central train station on Wednesday, October 13, calling on the EU, the UK, Norway and Switzerland to endorse the TRIPS waiver proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO). “As Europeans, we are ashamed […]
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The U.S. Department of Defense has reported that the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for U.S. Forces Korea has arrived at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. The details were given in a 28 December media release, to announce that the first shipment of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine already arrived in Korea. “Team Osan will deliberately identify high-risk personnel in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Forces Korea guidance to reduce the burden of COVID-19 on our Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Space Operators, and their families,” the release said. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE […]
The U.S. Air Force has announced on Saturday that the first boxes with Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to Yokota Air Base, Japan. The details were given in a 26 December media release, to announce that after rigorous testing and trials demonstrating the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of a COVID-19 vaccine via an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Since authorization, the Department of Defense has worked hand in hand with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Center for Disease Control (CDC), to allocate initial vaccine doses to jurisdictions based […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0e/1080765586_0:0:2975:1673_1200x675_80_0_0_fb5fee63e3e4d8968d204717a60ac399.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010181080811102-venezuelan-vice-president-says-russian-sputnik-v-vaccines-criticism-of-political-nature/ MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The criticism of the Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine Sputnik-V is of political nature, as, from the scientific point of view, it is an excellent vaccine, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez told the VTV broadcaster. In early October, Russia delivered the first batch of its vaccine to Venezuela — the first country in the Western Hemisphere to participate in phase 3 clinical trials of the vaccine. “This is rather a political issue than a health and medical one. From the scientific point of view, the Russian vaccine had no complications, it is […]
Short video, factual, enjoyable to listen to and a clear explanation from a real expert. Problem is, this video is dated May 4, 2020. We knew it then, why are some like Trump or even Barrett, pretending they didn’t know? The body’s adaptive immune system is very powerful – but a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will give stronger, more reliable protection, explains Andreas Radbruch, Scientific Director at Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ) Berlin. This video is a collaboration between the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Frontiers. See more expert commentaries on the coronavirus outbreak: https://coronavirus.frontiersin.org/ For our text support, we turn to […]
Donald Trump may be feuding with Dr. Anthony Fauci. But at least, as Trevor Noah put it Tuesday night, the president did get “a very real endorsement from another top scientist” this week. The Daily Show host was referring to Eric Trump, who appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday and boasted about the “vaccine” that supposedly saved his father’s life. “It goes to speak how good some of these vaccines that are being created are and what my father’s done on the vaccine front no one could have done,” the president’s deeply confused son told host Jonathan Karl. “My […]
Presidential son Eric Trump apparently thinks that a coronavirus vaccine has been fully developed and his father took it after he caught the virus in order to defeat COVID-19. If you are confused by that, you aren’t alone. Eric Trump appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday morning to discuss President Donald Trump’s return to public events and campaign rallies despite his recent hospitalization for coronavirus. Prior to the younger Trump’s interview, guest host Jonathan Karl told viewers that the White House refused their request to bring on public health experts from the coronavirus task force. “While his physician says the […]
The experimental novel coronavirus drug Donald Trump took last week is not, as the president claims, a cure for COVID-19. The monoclonal antibody cocktail, under development by New York pharma Regeneron, seems promising, experts and health officials say. But it and a similar antibody cocktail from Indiana firm Eli Lilly—also touted by the president—are still in trials. It’s too soon to say exactly what they do and how well they do it, and the president’s bluster about them is just the latest in a pattern of pandemic braggadocio. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s […]
One month after regulators in the United States and United Kingdom froze trials of a British novel coronavirus vaccine candidate, U.S. testing is still on hold. That has big implications for the urgent, multi-billion-dollar effort to produce a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine. The testing pause could slow development efforts by Astrazeneca, the U.K. pharmaceutical company, and, in turn, leave two rival pharmaceutical giants alone as leading developers of coronavirus vaccines. The problem? Both of those firms are developing the same basic type of high-tech—and potentially risky—messenger-RNA vaccine, one that has never been successfully rolled out in modern medicine.. Welcome to Rabbit […]
If the Trump administration tries to push out a novel coronavirus vaccine before it’s fully tested, there are three committees of independent experts who could stand in its way. It’s a testament to the massive stakes of this kind of work that some of their names are effectively kept secret. These committees—two in government and one in the private sector—keep tabs on vaccine-testing, sign off on new drugs and vaccines, and advise the government on how to deploy a new inoculation. But it remains to be seen just how much clout they have if the government decides to skirt science and […]
US President Donald Trump lambasted NY Governor Andrew Cuomo for questioning the safety of federally approved vaccines, reminding him of his much-maligned order to care homes to admit patients who had contracted Covid-19. “Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York wants to put New York at the END of the Vaccine List in that he doesn’t trust the FDA or Federal Government, even though the Vaccines are being developed by the finest Labs in the World. Wish he trusted us on Nursing Homes!” Trump tweeted on Friday. Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York wants to put New York at the END of […]
The possibility that the American population might be able to achieve some kind of herd immunity to the novel coronavirus without a vaccine seems to be slipping away. Or at least that’s the worrying implication of a new study that appeared Friday in The Lancet, a medical journal. Experts said the research clarifies the desperate need for a vaccine, and the risk of letting up on social distancing and other safety measures in the meantime. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
FILE PHOTO: Small bottles labeled with a “Vaccine COVID-19” sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Trust is Lacking Not trusting the FDA, Black doctors’ group creates panel to vet Covid-19 vaccines https://t.co/FmbR4Sgfrh via @statnews — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) September 21, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: With Trump crowing over ‘herd immunity’ for a virus that offers no trusted immunity (lasting antibodies) against itself and a question of when or if there will be a vaccine that the U.S. will allow to be used, it is no wonder this group seeks […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – China is conducting clinical trials of 11 vaccines against the coronavirus disease, four of which are in phase 3, the country’s Science and Technology Minister Wang Zhigang said on Friday. “At the moment, 11 vaccines have entered the phase of clinical trials, four of them are already in phase 3,” Wang said while speaking at the Zhongguancun forum in Beijing. According to the minister, Chinese researchers focused on the development of five types of COVID-19 vaccine at once — a recombinant protein subunit vaccine, an inactivated vaccine, an adenoviral vector-based vaccine, a nucleic acid-based vaccine, and a live […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccines after a briefing with public health experts in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccines after a briefing with public health experts in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Patrick Semansky/AP Distributing a vaccine or vaccines for the coronavirus will be one of the biggest challenges the next president faces, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday. “The development of a vaccine is only part of the battle. Distributing a vaccine to the entire population is as complex and challenging as […]
Earlier, Moscow and Manila struck an agreement to jointly work on clinical trials of the first coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V. The Philippine president has even volunteered to be the first to test the Russian vaccine in his country. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has said in a statement that his country will prioritise coronavirus vaccines produced in Russia and China, should they be “as good as any other in the market”. He added that with the vaccine’s procurement, should it be available, the country would be “back to normal” by the end of the year. Duterte explained narrowing his selection […]
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case. “The highest levels of NIH are very concerned,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, intramural clinical director and a leader of viral research at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an NIH division. “Everyone’s hopes are on a vaccine, and if you have a major complication the whole thing could get derailed.” A great deal of uncertainty remains about […]
Government regulators in the United Kingdom have ordered Cambridge-based pharma AstraZeneca to pause development of its novel-coronavirus vaccine candidate after a patient in the U.K. apparently had an unspecified adverse reaction to the vaccine. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the stand-down order came from the U.K. Data Safety Monitoring Board, which oversees pharmaceutical trials. The U.K. board coordinated with American regulators in making its decision, HHS stated. A “standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow review of safety data,” a spokesperson for AstraZeneca told Statnews. Source link
Experts generally agree it will be a heavy lift for the pharmaceutical industry to develop and fully test a safe novel coronavirus vaccine before the end of the year—to say nothing of developing and testing one before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3. But even if, by some miracle of science, a safe and effective vaccine were ready in the next couple of months, many Americans might not be able to get their hands on it. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione Originale in Italiano «Usually, common cold is not a danger, but a new strain of coronavirus is killing man species. Why did this newcoronavirus, named at first 2019-nCoV and then re-named SARS-CoV-2, emerge without anybody being ableto identify neither the reservoir nor the vector? (…) This virus could not haveemerged spontaneously by natural mutations and wild strains recombinations, it is a genetic chimaera with artificial insertions of modified genes, an engineered genome of a coronavirus within a capsid of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Couldn’t we protect ourselves from AIDS while risking […]
On 12 August, Russia become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the new coronavirus. The fact that the vaccine was approved before large-scale safety trials prompted disbelief on both sides of the Atlantic – but now health authorities there say they might do the same. A Russian official linked to COVID-19 vaccine research has hit back at the United States and United Kingdom’s about-face on vaccine approval. Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told reporters on Monday that the fund “notes the desire of the US and British authorities to follow the fast-track […]
With the planet still deep in the throes of a horrific pandemic, the development is not exactly a welcome one: There is growing evidence that you can catch the novel coronavirus more than once. In recent weeks, a small number of people in the United States, Europe, and China appear to have caught COVID-19 again after recovering from the disease a previous time. The prospect of reinfection has implications for immune response, herd immunity, and vaccine strategy. But conversations with public-health and immunization experts suggest these high-profile cases of reinfection may actually be encouraging—even if they also raise some spooky red […]
Bobby Kennedy Jr. joined members of the global community today in Berlin in an effort to raise awareness about the dangers our children face due to the vaccine lobby. Bobby Kennedy is the son of the former US Attorney General and the nephew of the US President who famously said, “I am a Berliner.” Bobby was in Berlin today to join forces with citizens around the globe who are concerned about our children’s health as a result of damaging vaccines. The group Children’s Health Defense got together in Berlin with the younger Kennedy in an effort to bring attention to corrupt […]
The CoronaVirus molecule COVID-19: A Scientific Quest To End Pandemic We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed. https://t.co/5pupOOgpcN — Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) August 21, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: This is a neat and very understandable sitrep on what is happening with COVID-19 vaccine development…..Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of […]
Anthony Fauci, a top federal health expert, has warned that rolling out a coronavirus vaccine under an emergency approval could make testing for other immunizations “impossible,” arguing it might rob the trials of participants. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Reuters in an interview on Monday that a vaccine should not be given an emergency use authorization (EUA) “before you have a signal of efficacy,” saying it could jeopardize the other various vaccines under testing. “One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, […]
Brazil continues to struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely struck the country, with more than 3.5 million confirmed cases and over 112,000 COVID-related deaths. Brazilian academic Fabio Sobral has shed light on the internal fight between the federal and local governments as well as the unfolding “vaccine race” in the country. The country’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been repeatedly subjected to criticism for his handling of the pandemic by international and domestic observers. Speaking to The Guardian last Saturday, ex-Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who was sacked by the president in April, lashed out at Bolsonaro for leading […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione Originale in Italiano Thanks to some southern gods who protect him from the Roman hills – no one dares to think of the untouchable tenant of the Quirinale (presidential palace) who sheds callid light of presumed wisdom in the peninsula and throughout Europe – the miserable lawyer of the Italian bureaucracy, born Giuseppe Conte, is doing the Bis of Government and anti-Covid-19 diktat thanks to the Democratic Party and the handful of parliamentary servants: the 5 Star Movement and the indispensable senators of Matteo Renzi’s Italia Viva prostrate themselves to the subjection […]
By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News Thousands of letters stuffed with money flooded Jonas Salk’s mailbox the week after his polio vaccine was declared safe and effective in 1955. Everybody wanted his vaccine. Desperate parents clogged doctors’ phone lines in search of the precious elixir; drug companies and doctors diverted doses to the rich and famous. Some of the first batches of the vaccine were disastrously botched, causing 200 cases of permanent paralysis. That barely dented public desire for the preventive. Marlon Brando even asked to play Salk in a movie. Eight years later, with polio a fading threat, the first […]
Thursday afternoon, Marla Maples, the television personality best known as Donald Trump’s second wife, shared an Instagram photo from notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates cracking up like a cartoon villain. “We get rid of cash and coins,” the overlaid text reads. “We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!” “Education is key…Ask questions…Dig deeper…,” Maples wrote over the Instagram Story, which bore the vague header: “The digitalized economy?” If users dug deeper, clicking through to the original […]
Numerous vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 are currently being developed across the world, with more than 20 entering the final stages of trials. The World Health Organisation has warned, however, that there may never be a “silver bullet” for the disease, which has infected 18.2 million people worldwide and killed almost 700,000. “Even if you have an optimistic assessment of the scientific progress, there is not enough coronavirus vaccines for the world”, said Rasmus Bech Hansen, CEO of the analytics company Airfinity. The statement comes as health advocates across the world fear that wealthier countries could monopolise the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, leaving […]
As news has dribbled out recently that a coronavirus vaccine might hit the market as early as October, lots of Democrats and liberals have reacted with some combination of suspicion and panic that Donald Trump is somehow rigging the trial process to rush out a vaccine to help him win the election. The White House has dubbed the vaccine effort Operation Warp Speed, after all. Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois told The Daily Beast’s Sam Brodey: “I would not put it past this administration and this president to advance his personal political agenda ahead of our national interest.” Panic is […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/14/1079934180_0:0:3077:1732_1200x675_80_0_0_1021e2220c2459259da074208144d469.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007201079934225-uk-clinches-deals-on-millions-of-doses-of-promising-covid-19-vaccines/ According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom is nearing 300,000. As of Monday morning, the number of infections stood at 296,358. The United Kingdom has inked agreements with German company BioNTech, US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, and French biotech entreprise Valneva to receive more than 90 million doses of “promising” coronavirus vaccines, the government announced in a press release on Monday. According to the release, London also secured a deal with British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca for treatments containing COVID-19-neutralising antibodies for those who cannot be vaccinated. “The hunt to find a vaccine is a truly global endeavour and we […]
After months of safety trials, large-scale clinical testing is finally getting underway for the leading novel coronavirus vaccine candidates. The Trump administration hopes to approve at least one vaccine for widespread use before the end of the year. However, many experts are skeptical that a vaccine will be ready that quickly. And even when a vaccine is ready, actually deploying it could be easier said than done. With or without a vaccine, America is in for a long, difficult fight against a stubborn and deadly virus that, as of Friday, had infected nearly 2.8 million Americans and killed more than 129,000, […]
While there are already a number of COVID-19 novel coronavirus vaccine trials underway, researchers have also begun looking into whether dependable tuberculosis and polio vaccines could assist in lessening the severity of symptoms experienced by those who may contract the disease. “This is the only vaccine in the world that can be given to combat COVID-19 right now,” claimed Jeffrey D. Cirillo, a professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology at Texas A&M University’s Health Science Center, speaking of the tuberculosis vaccine to the Washington Post. Cirillo is currently leading a trial of the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which he noted has […]
The U.S. Army has declared war on the novel coronavirus—and civilian scientists are grateful for the reinforcement. The ground combat branch’s Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Maryland has been working on a range of tests and therapies as well as possible vaccines, the command’s top officer told reporters last week. “Our researchers and scientists are using all of our assets to develop countermeasures to detect, treat and defeat the virus,” Brig. Gen. Mike Talley said. Source link
Merck, one of Big Pharma’s biggest players, reveals its COVID-19 vaccine and therapy plans By Jon Cohen/Science Magazine Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has been conspicuously absent from the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines and drugs. No longer. The company this morning announced it has cut deals to develop and manufacture two different COVID-19 vaccines and a much-discussed experimental antiviral compound that is already in early clinical trials. Roger Perlmutter, president of Merck Research Laboratories, portrays the company as deliberate rather than a latecomer. And the immunologist believes Merck’s skills and experience can accelerate the progress that […]