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How advanced are COVID booster vaccines?

With ATAGI flagging that third doses and booster shots could soon be used to further protect against COVID, newsGP assesses preliminary results from Moderna and Pfizer’s ongoing clinical trials. Questions regarding...

29 September, 2021

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COVID vaccines protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes

The Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the highly infectious Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 — but their protection drops away over time, a study of infections in the United...

2 September, 2021

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New variant COVID findings fuel more worries about vaccine resistance

Scientists in the United Kingdom reported that a small number of B117 variants have developed the E484K mutation thought to help SARS-CoV-2 partly evade immunity, and another UK group said their lab experiments suggest...

3 February, 2021

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How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,”...

22 May, 2020

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