The rollout of two newly authorized Covid-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s darkest hour. Both are expected to be available to the public in the first few months of next year. Here are answers to some questions you might be asking yourself about the new vaccines.
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ATLANTA – Emory University is participating in a new Phase 3 vaccine clinical trial for COVID-19. The clinical trial will test the safety and effectiveness of an investigational protein-based vaccine developed by U.S. biotechnology company Novavax, Inc.
Emory administered the first doses of the vaccine to volunteers this week at the Ponce de Leon clinical research site at Grady Memorial Hospital. This is the third late stage vaccine candidate being evaluated by Emory researchers. Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Emory University School of Medicine, is principal investigator of the study at the Ponce de Leon clinical research site.
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South Asia handled pandemic well - Study Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The South Asian region has done well in mounting an appropriate response and has shown notably lower rate of deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a low level of pandemic preparedness, a study has found.
A paper titled ‘Pandemic Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in South Asian Countries’ said, “There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in the South Asian region, despite that the region has a lower rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19, despite case surges similar to the rest of the world.”
Factors such as a younger population, early lockdown and some level of general immunity may have helped India and other South Asian countries keep the Covid-19 mortality rate down compared to other nations, says a study.
Bengaluru-based epidemiologist Dr Giridhara R Babu and researchers from the Philippines and the US conducted the study, which was recently published in the journal Science Direct.
The South Asian region comprises eight countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and is home to one-fifth of the world’s population. It accounts for 21 per cent of the reported Covid-19 cases in the world and 11 per cent of the deaths. Despite low level of pandemic preparedness, the countries have done well in mounting an appropriate response, the study notes.
Health officials brace for a surge in US Covid-19 cases after the holidays
With Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in.
Posted: Dec 28, 2020 12:11 PM
Updated: Dec 28, 2020 12:24 PM
Posted By: CNN
With Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months. We ve just seen these amplification events, and that s what s happened at the end of this year in the US, said Erin Bromage, an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.