#Health Canada approves new COVID treatment

#Health Canada approves new COVID treatment

“#Health Canada approves new COVID treatment” Politics Insider for Jan. 18: China baselessly claims COVID originated in Canada; Ottawa says COVID tests at airport will stay in place; calls for Alberta justice minister’s resignation intensify Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox in the morning. Limited…

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#Pfizer vax is 90% effective against severe COVID-19 variants

#Pfizer vax is 90% effective against severe COVID-19 variants

“#Pfizer vax is 90% effective against severe COVID-19 variants” Here’s even more definitive evidence that vaccines save lives. A new study of more than 3.4 million Pfizer jab recipients has confirmed that vaccination is 90% effective against severe COVID-19 illness for at least six months after the second dose. It’s the latest Pfizer-backed analysis of…

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#COVID vax boosters recommended by White House for all Americans

#COVID vax boosters recommended by White House for all Americans

“#COVID vax boosters recommended by White House for all Americans” The Biden administration is set to announce that Americans who got a COVID-19 vaccine should receive a booster shot eight months after becoming fully vaccinated, officials said late Monday. The booster doses would likely not be made available until mid-to-late September, after the Food and…

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#Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta strain: study

#Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta strain: study

“#Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta strain: study” Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine may be more effective against the Delta variant than Pfizer, according to a new study. Researchers found the effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine against COVID dropped considerably last month as the Delta strain took hold, according to two reports published on medRxiv on…

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#Half of US is fully vaccinated against COVID-19: CDC

#Half of US is fully vaccinated against COVID-19: CDC

“#Half of US is fully vaccinated against COVID-19: CDC” Half of all Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Data on the agency’s website showed that 165.9 million Americans had either received both shots of vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, or taken the single-shot vaccine from…

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#US buys 200 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

#US buys 200 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

“#US buys 200 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine” The federal government has bought an additional 200 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that are expected to be delivered from October 2021 through April 2022, the companies announced Friday. That brings the total number of doses of the two-shot vaccine purchased by the…

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#Pfizer recalls Chantix due to cancer-causing chemical

#Pfizer recalls Chantix due to cancer-causing chemical

“#Pfizer recalls Chantix due to cancer-causing chemical” Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is recalling 12 lots of its popular anti-smoking drug Chantix after the company discovered the products contain high levels of a chemical that may cause cancer. The voluntary move expands on a recall that covered nine lots of Chantix, which goes by the generic name varenicline,…

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