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Covid-19: Vaccinated pregnant women pass antibodies to newborns, says study

The findings of the study were published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM. The effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, the researchers say, lies in their ability...

30 September, 2021

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‘It’s only a matter of time’: bat-human virus spillovers may be very common, study finds

Covid-19 has been called a “once in a century” pandemic, but new research suggests that the kind of event thought to have sparked its outbreak – the spillover of a bat virus to people – is more common than previously...

20 September, 2021

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Current situation and outlook of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia

According to the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the COVID-19 death rate has been skyrocketing in multiple Southeast Asian countries since July 2021, with record high case numbers over the past month...

16 August, 2021

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Race to develop mRNA flu vaccines will contend with a longer review than Covid-19

The success of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccines may have sped up the timelines for seasonal influenza shots based on having the same platform, but non-emergent conditions may mean a relatively...

13 August, 2021

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Mixed AstraZeneca-Pfizer shot boosts COVID antibody level – study

A mixed vaccination of first AstraZeneca and then a Pfizer COVID-19 shot boosted neutralizing antibody levels by six times compared with two AstraZeneca doses, a study from South Korea showed. The study involved 499...

28 July, 2021

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The vaccine donations aren’t enough

Developing countries now account for more of the COVID-19s daily global death toll, at 85 percent and climbing, than high-income countries. Thanks to high vaccination rates, deaths in these rich countries have fallen...

21 June, 2021

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Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

“Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represents the clearest pathway out of this pandemic for all of us — children included, and commitments announced by G7 members…are an important step in this direction”, the...

14 June, 2021

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Mixing COVID-19 vaccines appears to boost immune responses

Faced with short supplies of COVID-19 vaccines and unforeseen side effects, some countries have adopted an unproven strategy: switching shots midstream. Most authorized vaccines require two doses administered weeks or...

10 June, 2021

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Will COVID-19 vaccines give lifelong immunity to the disease? What we know

Whether we would develop immunity to COVID-19, or how long that would last if we did, has been a mystery since the early months of the pandemic. However, two new studies are helping us better understand how our immune...

8 June, 2021

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Metabolic hormone ‘leptin’ linked to vaccine response

Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin is linked to poor vaccine antibody responses in the general population, a University of Queensland study has found. The researchers made the discovery while...

25 May, 2021

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