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Covid-19 pandemic Friday 8 January 2021, by Sharon Lerner Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla recently heaped praise on “the almost 44,000 people who selflessly raised their hands to participate in our trial.” “Each of you has helped to bring the world one step closer to our shared goal of a potential vaccine to fight this devastating pandemic,” Bourla wrote in an open letter to volunteers who took part in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine research, which was conducted in Argentina, South Africa, Brazi...

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky As 2021 begins, some new trends are already emerging. Third-world political elites are privately acquiring COVID-19 vaccines and activists are advocating a social justice basis to allocate it internationally. Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey will have to be satisfied with Pfizer’s gratitude, because (like most countries in the world) they won’t be receiving enough of the vaccine to inoculate their populations, at least not anytime soon. Meanwhile, the U.S. a...

Boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: Paul Sancya/Pool/Getty ImagesBoxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: Paul Sancya/Pool/Getty Images World Faces Covid-19 “Vaccine Apartheid” Even countries that hosted vaccine trials â€�...

Joshua Shuman 12/31/2020 Nearly 150,000 have died in the region due to the coronavirus pandemic but vaccines boost hope for 2021 Undoubtedly the coronavirus pandemic surpasses all other comers as 2020’s top news story. Responsible for the deaths of close to 150,000 citizens of the Middle East, the virus swept across the region, enveloping everyone and everything like the hot wind and sand of a khamsin. Every aspect of life – politics, economics, health care and military – has been chang...

Share Funds, Resources, Expertise: World Faces Mammoth Task of Fair Covid Vaccine Distribution FOLLOW US ON: As the number of countries that have authorized the use of a Covid-19 vaccine grows, many are sighing with anticipated relief. Yet now comes another challenge: how do we distribute vaccines safely and equitably to those most in need in our own countries and across the world? We are in uncharted territory. According to Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organizations Health Emerg...

Opinion: How to distribute Covid-19 vaccines fairly around the world CNN 12/28/2020 Opinion by Lord Tariq Ahmad and Elizabeth Cousens © Joe Raedle/Getty Images FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 23: Leonida Lipshy, RN in the COVID unit at the Broward Health Medical Center, gives Dr. Nadav Fields, DO., internal medicine, Broward Health Imperial Point, a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on December 23, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Broward Health Medical Center began...

Recent good news on vaccines for COVID-19 brings us closer to ending the acute phase of this terrible pandemic. But the sense of collective relief must be accompanied by a healthy dose of reality.

• Lawan insists on product review before usage Medical experts have warned that the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19, which is 70 per cent more contagious, could affect effectiveness of current vaccines. The fresh disease has shown face in United Kingdom and a couple of other nations. To avert putting the entire national immunisation programme in jeopardy, they advised the Federal Government to prioritise local production of the therapy. This comes as President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawa...

Caspian News Vaccination of Azerbaijan’s population against Covid-19 will start in early 2021 following the finalization of negotiations for the purchase of vaccines. Authorities in the country defined scientifically substantiated safety as the key criteria a vaccine should meet, Caspian News writes in the article  “Now, when the vaccination process begins in the world, we are also involved in these activities. For many of the past months, negotiations were held with leading vaccine manu...