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AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Easy to Update in Response to Variants A COVID-19 vaccine still awaiting U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval may prove to be a powerful weapon in fighting the pandemic, according to its developers. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved earlier this month by the World Health Organization toContinue Reading

Single Dose of Pfizer COVID Vaccine Highly Effective in Previously Infected People A single dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection against the new coronavirus in people who’ve already been infected, two new British studies say. The findings provide strong support to experts who say that people who’veContinue Reading

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Planning for Variants Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to update their original COVID-19 vaccine and also test a third booster shot in order to prepare for the possibility that new coronavirus variants may be more resistant to the vaccine. “We are taking multiple steps to actContinue Reading

New Coronavirus Variant Surging in California A coronavirus variant first identified in California is more contagious than previous forms of the virus and is spreading across the state, two new studies show. One of them found that compared to other variants, this variant produces twice as many viral particles insideContinue Reading

Transplant Recipient Dies After Receiving COVID-19-Infected Lungs A Michigan woman died of COVID-19 after receiving a double-lung transplant from a donor infected with the new coronavirus, a newly published case study says. It may be the first confirmed time in the United States that the virus was transmitted via anContinue Reading

Listeria Outbreak Spurs Recall of Queso Fresco cheeses All Queso Fresco cheeses made by El Abuelito Cheese, Inc. have been recalled after being linked to a listeria outbreak in four states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. There have been seven illnesses so far reported, with four in Maryland,Continue Reading

U.S. to Provide $4 Billion for International COVID-19 Vaccine Program The United States will soon start providing $4 billion for COVAX, an international program to buy and distribute coronavirus vaccines to poor countries. White House officials said President Joe Biden will make the announcement Friday at a G-7 meeting, andContinue Reading

Many U.S. Troops Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination Thousands of U.S. military personnel are refusing or delaying COVID-19 vaccination, even as service members are being deployed to help give shots at vaccination centers nationwide. Up to two-thirds of troops who were offered the vaccine have accepted the shots, “very early data” show,Continue Reading

U.S. Calls for Swift Action on New Ebola Outbreaks Swift action is needed on two new Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Guinea “to avoid catastrophic consequences,” the White House said Tuesday. “While the world is reeling from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Ebola has againContinue Reading