Several people in Ontario say they were accidentally given the equivalent of six doses of the COVID-19 vaccine when they were getting their booster shot. A 75-year-old man is one of the people. Dozens of people who got their booster ...
Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and avoiding overwhelming hospital systems have been top priorities for governments worldwide. The available Covid-19 vaccines have proved their efficiency, and more than 7.14 billion vaccines doses have been administered globally. However, needle phobia has ...
The fourth wave has hit hard on the U.S medical system, and the predominant Delta strain has caused a surge in daily new infections. According to the letter published at the beginning of the month in The New England Journal ...
Health experts and epidemiologists have been working around the clock since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a difficult task to monitor all SARS-CoV-2 variants and predict and create future scenarios. However, indicators that could help with ...
The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is concerned about the Biden administration’s strategy for introducing the booster shots for the Covid-19 vaccine. They argued that the decision to re-start immunization came too quickly and could fuel public concerns that vaccines are ...
The Delta variant has spread fear worldwide due to its high transmissibility rate and the different symptoms it can trigger. A recent report from Pfizer revealed that the vaccine is only 83.7 % effective after four to six months of ...
As the Delta variant spreads worldwide, several countries have started to administer the third jab to those age 60 or older. Israel has already administered more than 420,000 booster shots to seniors as the country has experienced a surge in ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the number of death rates due to coronavirus infection have surged by 80% in Africa, with a 6,343 weekly rate. During a media briefing, WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus declared that the Delta ...
The U.S is still struggling to keep Covid-19 outbreaks under control, despite having 70% of the adult population (12 or more) vaccinated with one of the available vaccines: Moderna, PfizerBioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson. According to CDC data, recent outbreaks ...
The vaccination campaign against the SARS-CoV-2 virus began in the U.S in December 2020, when nurse Sandra Lindsay received the first dose of the PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Sandra Lindsay received her first shot in New York, a city that was ...