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Covid Surge in Oregon Shows U.S. Fight Against Pandemic Not Over Bloomberg 4/29/2021 Nic Querolo and Olga Kharif (Bloomberg) -- A Covid-19 surge in Oregon is sweeping through a partially vaccinated population, with steep rises in case rates among the young -- an indication that the U.S. may struggle with distinct outbreaks for months to come. The state reported 888 confirmed and presumed cases on Tuesday and a 6.5% test positivity rate, bringing the seven-day average to 832, a...

Venezuela Politicizes Access to Vaccines Via State Loyalty Card Nicolle Yapur and Alex Vasquez, Bloomberg News People wait to receive a dose of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday, April 9, 2021. Last week Venezuela received 50,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, as part of a bilateral agreement between Caracas and Moscow. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela is restricting Covid-19 shots to...

Caribbean Countries Ask Wealthy Nations to Share Vaccine Supply Jim Wyss, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- The 15-country Caribbean Community has asked wealthy nations to share their supply of Covid-19 vaccines, saying their economies won’t be able to recover from the pandemic without them. In a statement issued late Thursday, CARICOM said it was “dissatisfied and deeply concerned about the inequitable access to vaccines” it was facing. While members states belong to the World Healt...

Novartis in Talks to Join Pharma Industry’s Covid Vaccine Push Bloomberg 1/28/2021 Naomi Kresge and Francine Lacqua (Bloomberg) -- Novartis AG is in talks to help produce other companies’ coronavirus vaccines or treatments as the industry mobilizes to boost supply amid fights over access. Popular Searches The company is “in conversations with a range of different players,” Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan said on Bloomberg TV, with an agreement possible in the co...

Inside Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking By January 25, 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Everyone is fighting the same coronavirus, but about a year into the pandemic, quality of life and control of the pathogen’s spread look vastly different across the world. Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking scores the largest 53 economies on their success at containing the virus with the least amount of social and economic disruption. We considered many datasets, indicators and indexes produced by or...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s heath minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, which justifies stricter border controls.

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s health minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, and that stricter border controls are justified. “We don’t know the degree of that,” Matt Hancock said in an interview on Sky News on Sunday, commenting on the extent of any potential reduced efficacy of the vaccines. “In the meantime, we’ve got to have a...

Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die "For those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences," the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said. Norwegian officials said 23 people had died a short time after receiving their first dose of vaccine. Norway said Covid-19 vaccines may be too risky for the very old and terminally ill, t...

Read more about Covid-19: Sinovac vaccine shows 78% efficacy in Brazil after data confusion on Business Standard. The protection rate, confirmed by Sao Paulo state officials, was derived from Sinovacs most advanced final-phase trials in Brazil involving about 13,000 participants

Bolsonaro Mistrusts Covid Vaccines and Brazil Is Falling Behind Bloomberg 1/8/2021 Julia Leite and Martha Beck (Bloomberg) -- Across the globe, presidents and prime ministers are scrambling to score precious vials of Covid vaccine to protect citizens and gain political favor. Not Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The president, who from the start has belittled the pandemic, refuses to be vaccinated, pooh-poohs any need to negotiate with drug companies and says the country will wait f...