• Press Release: Sanofi and Novavax announce co-exclusive licensing agreement to co-commercialize COVID-19 vaccine and develop novel flu-COVID-19 combination vaccines

    Sanofi and Novavax announce co-exclusive licensing agreement to co-commercialize COVID-19 vaccine and develop novel flu-COVID-19 combination vaccines Agreement provides patients with broader access to a protein-based non-mRNA adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine through combined commercial strength, from 2025 onwards Accelerates potential for development of a novel flu-COVID-19 combination product based on authorized vaccines with demonstrated efficacy and tolerability, potentially offering patients...

  • Is COVID-19 still a ‘pandemic?’

    On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.” Is that still the case?

    • KHON2

    Is COVID-19 still a ‘pandemic?’

    On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.” Is that still the case?

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    CDC Faked 99% of Reported COVID-19 Deaths?

    An article claimed that the vast majority of people who were labeled as "COVID-19 deaths" actually died from other causes.

  • AstraZeneca pulls its COVID-19 vaccine from the European market

    LONDON (AP) — The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator. In an update on the European Medicines Agency's website Wednesday, the regulator said that the approval for AstraZeneca's Vaxzevria had been withdrawn “at the request of the marketing authorization holder.” []

  • Despite its 'nothingburger' reputation, COVID-19 remains deadlier than the flu

    Since the earliest days of the pandemic, health officials have gauged the threat of COVID-19 by comparing it to the flu. At first, it wasn't even close. People hospitalized in 2020 with the then-novel respiratory disease were five times more likely to die of their illness than were patients who had been hospitalized with influenza during the preceding flu seasons. Immunity from vaccines and past coronavirus infections has helped tame COVID-19 to the point that when researchers compared the...

    • CP24

    'Not a scarient': New COVID-19 subvariant dominant in Canada

    A new COVID-19 subvariant is dominant in Canada, representing just over 30 per cent of cases in the country, but infectious disease experts say there’s no sign it’ll evolve into a summer “scarient.” The new subvariant, KP.2, is not actually new, it’s a “soup” of mutations that have accumulated, Dr. Tyson Graber, an associate scientist at the CHEO Research Institute in Ottawa, explained . Omicron, the tidal wave variant that spread in late 2022, is the “parent” of KP.2, which will...

  • Media deem COVID-19 vaccine injury acceptable for discussion

    The Overton window as it pertains to COVID-19 vaccine injury is shifting. The once verboten notion that vaccines previously lauded as the safest and most effective vaccines in medical history might inflict serious harm on some recipients, an idea long dismissed by doctors and lambasted in the press, has gained some acceptability in recent weeks. Members of […]

  • Former DOH chief to appeal COVID-19 graft raps

    Former health chief Francisco Duque III is set to file a motion for reconsideration of the order of the Office of the Ombudsman for the filing of graft charges against him over the alleged irregular transfer of over P41 billion for the procurement of personal protective equipment for COVID-19.

  • ‘FLiRT’ COVID-19 subvariant dominant in Canada. What to know about the strain

    Canada's lull in COVID-19 cases faces a potential disruption with the emergence of a new family of subvariants, playfully dubbed the 'FLiRT' variants.

  • Marcos touts release of COVID-19 frontliners’ emergency allowance

    President Marcos highlighted the distribution of the bulk of the pandemic emergency allowance to frontliners in his message for Health Workers’ Day, assuring members of the sector that the government values their service to the nation.?

  • AstraZeneca Withdraws Covid-19 Vaccine, Citing Lack of Demand

    AstraZeneca Plc pulled its Covid-19 vaccine from the market due to lack of demand for a shot that initially raised hopes it would play a key role in protecting the world against the virus.