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Johnson & Johnson says it has expanded its phase 2a clinical trial to include young people age 12 to 17.
The FDA has also said that Moderna’s vaccine can be stored at room temperature for up to a day and that the company can include extra doses in its vials. These changes could help speed up distribution of the vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccines have reached consumers in record time. Though the process can typically take 10 to 15 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson in less than a year. Before now, the fastest-ever vaccine for mumps took four years to develop in the 1960s.
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Two videos shared hundreds of times on Facebook feature a Kenyan doctor alleging that two drugs ivermectin on its own and hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc and azithromycin are effective in treating Covid-19. But the claims are false: there is no scientific evidence that either medication can help treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
In a video posted in English on March 17, 2021, Kenyan doctor Stephen Kimotho Karanja claims that two sets of medication can help treat Covid-19: the anti-parasite drug ivermectin on the one hand, and a mix of the anti-malaria medication hydroxychloroquine, with zinc and azithromycin on the other.
Public health education post-COVID-19: a proposal for critical revisions
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Abdul Ghaffar, Sabina Faiz Rashid, Rhoda Kitti Wanyenze, Adnan A Hyder
Improving the health of people is an essential and perhaps one of the most important functions of any government; health is not only a contributor to overall development but also an important factor in reducing poverty. To achieve health of their populations, nations build health infrastructure and invest in a well-trained health workforce. Public health knowledge, expertise and a skilled workforce play a critical role in prevention of disease, promotion of health, developing programmes, monitoring and evaluation of health systems. Schools of public health (and allied institutions) all over the world play a key role in the production of such a workforce and have traditionally focused on competencies in areas such as epidemiology, statistics, health systems, disease prevention, health economics and environmental health.
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Richard Biggs, 20, an evolutionary biology major at the University of Colorado Boulder gets his first dose of the Moderna vaccine from Dr. Laird Wolfe.
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The first clinical trial testing a variant-specific Covid-19 shot launched Wednesday.
The NIH-sponsored study will test an updated version of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine.
The shot is designed to fight the B.1.351 strain first identified in South Africa.
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The first clinical trial to test an updated version of a coronavirus vaccine began Wednesday.