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India’s health ministry on Tuesday confirmed 161,736 new cases and 879 deaths, taking the total to 13,689,453 cases (1,264,698 active cases) and 171,058 fatalities.
Worldwide, over 137.28 million infections and 2,959,324 fatalities are confirmed.
According to Oxford University’s Our World in Data website, 788.19 million vaccine doses have been administered across the world. In India, according to the health ministry, 108,533,085 vaccine doses have been administered till Monday.
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Regeneron’s antibody cocktail prevents symptomatic Covid
A cocktail of monoclonal antibodies developed by Regeneron reduces the risk of symptomatic Covid-19 by 81%, phase 3 trial data shows.
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The Phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial assessed the effect of the drug on uninfected individuals without SARS-CoV-2 antibodies or any Covid-19 symptoms, who lived in the same household as an individual who tested positive within the prior 4 days.
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Print this article Dr. Anthony Fauci attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the COVID-19 response on Capitol Hill, March 18, 2021.
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More than a year ago, Americans welcomed Anthony Fauci into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome.
It’s true that Fauci has enjoyed an illustrious career, advising every president since Ronald Reagan and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. There’s much to admire in his overall leadership since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he has a serious job that’s not supposed to involve being a media spokesman so ubiquitous that it’s hard to believe he ever turns down any media requests.