Tag: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer executives say Covid could become endemic by 2024
Alejandro Brown receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker at a drive-thru site at Tropical Park on December 16, 2021 in [...]
New York state reports highest number of daily Covid cases of entire pandemic at more than 21,000
Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, arrives to speak at a news conference in New York, U.S., on Monday, Sept 30, 2021.Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | G [...]
Federal court reinstates Biden administration’s business vaccine mandate
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021.Al Drago | Bloomb [...]
U.S. faces oncoming Covid omicron surge as it grapples with delta
Dr. Anthony Fauci takes part in a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and other members of the White House COVID [...]
Omicron lung infection less severe, replicates faster than delta in human airways: Study
A nurse Nurse views the lung x-rays of a Covid patient on October 13, 2021 at the Casalpalocco hospital, south of Rome.Alberto Pizzoli | AFP | Gett [...]
Fauci says omicron will become dominant Covid variant soon, urges booster shots
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [...]
CDC panel prefers Pfizer, Moderna vaccines over J&J due to rare blood clot cases
A healthcare worker holds a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.Phill Magakoe | AFP | Getty ImagesAn advisory panel for the Centers for Disea [...]
Denmark expects omicron to overtake delta this week.
People wait in line to take coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests at pop-up testing site in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2021.Brendan McDermid [...]
Fauci says Covid boosters work against omicron, no need for variant-specific third shot
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Wa [...]
Omicron now makes up almost 3% of U.S. Covid cases, according to the CDC
People receive the COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing site in street at Manhattan on December 8, 2021 in New York.Liao Pan | China News Service | [...]
California imposes indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status
A sign is posted about required face coverings in Grand Central Market on July 19, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesCalifor [...]
Oxford University study says omicron can hit the double vaccinated
Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesLONDON — Two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are substantially less ef [...]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says at least one patient has died with omicron
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend Prime Ministers Questions at the Houses of Parliament on July 7, 2021 in London, [...]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul imposes mask mandate on omicron Covid worries
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced a statewide mask mandate for all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues already have a [...]
CDC data shows omicron Covid patient in U.S. had symptoms starting Nov. 15
A woman is getting a Covid-19 test at a Covid-19 mobile testing site at the Times Square in New York City, United States on Dec 6, 2021.Tayfun Cosk [...]