A look at COVID-19 vaccines already in use, or getting close
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 file photo, Joseph Zalman Kleinman, 92, a Holocaust survivor, receives his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, administered by Linor Attias of United Hatzalah paramedic service at the Clalit Health Services vaccination center at a sports arena in Jerusalem. While a few have already hit the market, there are still dozens of coronavirus vaccines in development around the globe. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
While a few have already hit the market, there are still dozens of coronavirus vaccines in development around the globe.
COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 49 new deaths, 1,567 new cases Photo: NIAID-RML via AP. FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK d the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S.
How Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine compares to shots from Pfizer and Moderna Feb 17, 2021, 10:00 AM
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vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to front-line health care workers under an emergency use authorization at a drive up vaccination site from Renown Health in Reno, Nevada on December 17, 2020.
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Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine was shown to be 66% effective at preventing mild and moderate infections, and 85% effective at preventing severe disease.
In South Africa, it proved 100% effective against preventing such severe Covid cases that the patient ended up hospitalised or dead.
It also has the benefits of being cheap and relatively easy to manufacture and distribute. It only requires one shot in the arm.
Bill Gates Surprised By Crazy And Evil COVID-19 Conspiracies
“Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories,” the Microsoft co-founder told Reuters.
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LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, but said on Wednesday he would like to explore what is behind them.
In an interview with Reuters, Gates said the millions of online posts and “crazy conspiracy theories” about him and about top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had likely taken hold in part because of the combination of a frightening viral pandemic and the rise of social media.
(Reuters) - Infectious disease doctor Angela Branche needed help.
Sister Jenthia and Dr. Angela Branche hand out coronavirus disease (COVID-19) survival kit to Natalie Hall as part of a door-to-door outreach program to the Black community to increase vaccine trial participation in Rochester, New York, U.S., October 17, 2020. Picture taken October 17, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario
Branche and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York were running a clinical trial for a vaccine against the coronavirus, which kills Black people at three times the rate it kills whites - yet it was mostly whites signing up. They needed more African Americans.