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CVS, Walgreens Look For Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations
Thelasko shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: Administering Covid-19 vaccines comes with a valuable perk for retail pharmacies: access to troves of consumer data. Chains such as CVS Health Corp., Walmart Inc. and Walgreens-Boots Alliance, Inc. are collecting data from millions of customers as they sign up for shots, enrolling them in patient systems and having recipients register customer…
How much of a threat is the Brazil variant of coronavirus to the UK?
The P.1 variant from Brazil that has been detected in six people in the UK can partly evade existing antibodies, but vaccines should still protect against severe disease Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269579-how-much-of-a-threat-is-the-brazil-variant-of-coronavirus-to-the-uk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
New coronavirus variant in NYC has vaccine-evading mutation
It has a mutation that may help the coronavirus partially evade COVID-19 vaccines. Source: https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-variant-new-york-city.html
Vaccines Adapted for Variants Will Not Need Lengthy Testing, FDA Says
The Food and Drug Administration said this week that vaccine developers would not need to conduct lengthy randomized controlled trials for vaccines that have been adapted to protect against concerning coronavirus variants. From a report: The recommendations, which call for small trials more like those required for annual flu vaccines, would greatly accelerate the review process at a time when scientists…
Lengthy clinical trials to test vaccines modified for variants won’t be necessary, FDA says
The testing process for modified vaccines will likely be similar to that of the annual flu shot, FDA says. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fda-recommendations-coronavirus-variant-shots.html
America Has Vaccinated More People Than Any Other Country in the World
Despite America’s vast population of nearly 330 million people, 42.8 million Americans have already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Axios writes: The U.S. has carried out more vaccinations than any country in the world, and given a first dose to a higher percentage of its population (12%) than all but five countries: Israel, the Seychelles, the UAE,…
Elon Musk Co-Authors COVID-19 Paper Accepted For Publication In ‘Nature’
Slashdot reader Rei writes: On 15 February, 2021, the paper Discrete SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers track with functional humoral stability was accepted for publication by the prestigious journal Nature — interesting not only for being a large-cohort study on COVID-19 reinfection, but for the presence of one of its coauthors: one Elon Reeve Musk. According to reporting, Musk — concerned in April…
Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine Just Got a Lot Easier to Distribute
Pfizer and BioNTech “have asked the U.S. health regulator to relax requirements for their COVID-19 vaccine to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, potentially allowing it to be kept in pharmacy freezers,” reports Reuters, which adds that approval “could send a strong signal to other regulators around the world that may ease distribution of the shot in lower-income countries.” Slashdot reader FrankOVD…
What do the new coronavirus variants mean for a return to normality?
With news of one new variant after another, it’s easy to despair that even vaccines won’t be enough to overcome the coronavirus pandemic – but there are reasons to be optimistic Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933224-100-what-do-the-new-coronavirus-variants-mean-for-a-return-to-normality/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…