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 ...
Just at the end of last month, New York City officials announced that municipal public workers would have to get vaccinated or face weekly testing for the Covid-19 virus. The list of public workers included teachers and police officers. New York ...
The Danish Health Authority has announced today that those with a weak immune system who have been already fully vaccinated can receive the third jab. The European country is not the first one to recommend so. Israel has already started ...
The cold season is slowly approaching, and beyond the never-ending threat of the pandemic, people will also have to deal with seasonal issues such as the cold. Those who want to be protected against both have to wonder whether it ...
Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has expressed his belief that the current pandemic will turn in the near future into an endemic. Based on their definitions, a pandemic is a disease that spreads ...
The Haneda Airport in Tokyo has a woman test positive for COVID just 3 days before the start of the Olympics. What is more, there were reasons to believe she was in fact infected with the Lambda COVID variant which ...
An expert suggests that tens of thousands of vaccinated individuals may get infected with COVID-19, but most of them won’t be considerably impacted by the virus. The intensity of the illness (which differs from the number of individuals who contract ...
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 ...
To help increase the number of people getting their flu shots, the UK government will offer young people discounted meals and taxi rides. People will be offered a discount on food delivery and taxi-hailing from businesses such as Bolt, Deliveroo ...