#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story

#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story

“#Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story” On the bright side, when it comes to vaccines, so far Canada is actually doing better than Australia. That country bet big on a thriving domestic bio-sciences sector. It was making good progress on a made-in-Australia vaccine until December, when it had to scrap its vaccine program…

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#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer

#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer

“#The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer” He was called a “savant” and a “savior,” thought a contender for a Nobel Prize and named alongside John Steinbeck as an American “genius whose work will live on through the centuries.” But he wasn’t American, he was Canadian, and by 1939—just four years after receiving international…

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#CDC director worries over ‘pandemic fatigue’ come spring

#CDC director worries over ‘pandemic fatigue’ come spring

“#CDC director worries over ‘pandemic fatigue’ come spring” Despite encouraging national trends in coronavirus-related hospitalizations and cases, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) worries that “pandemic fatigue” come spring could significantly hamper the country’s trajectory toward vaccination-induced herd immunity. The comments from Dr. Rochelle Walensky also come as additional states continue to detect highly transmissible coronavirus variants first identified…

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#How will we know we’ve reached herd immunity?

#How will we know we’ve reached herd immunity?

“#How will we know we’ve reached herd immunity?” Health officials around the world are racing to vaccinate enough people to stop the spread of COVID-19, but what qualifies as “enough” is still an open question. The goal is to get to “herd immunity,” which is when enough people have immunity, either from vaccination or a…

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#UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access

#UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access

“#UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access” UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon…

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#In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations

#In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations

“#In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations” ATHENS, Greece — Heavy snowfall blanketed the Acropolis and other ancient monuments in Athens, caused power cuts and halted COVID-19 vaccinations in the Greek capital on Tuesday as the weather brought many services across the country to a standstill. Greek media reported that three deaths in separate…

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