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Following a two-month-long review, Switzerland Saturday became the latest country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use.
“After a meticulous review of the available information, Swissmedic concluded that the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech is safe and that its benefit outweighs the risks,” the Swissmedic regulatory authority said in a statement. A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (AP)
It is the first vaccine against the new coronavirus authorised so far in the country.
According to AFP, the alpine nation has secured around 15.8 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, in deals with three separate manufacturers. It has signed contracts for around three million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, around 7.5 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, and around 5.3 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. All three vaccines require two doses per person.
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David White was first evaluated for a kidney transplant in 2011, but it would be four years before he got the call that his turn had come. In between undergoing various forms of dialysis to do the job his kidneys couldn t and attending medical appointments to ensure he was healthy enough to survive the four-to-six-hour surgery, White busied himself with reading, exercise, and even trying to learn a new language to keep his mind off the fact that his kidneys were failing.
During his initial evaluations, the then 49-year-old consulted with social workers and completed a test to measure his heart function. Although White s high blood pressure and kidney failure had taken a toll on his health, he says he sailed through the physical health checks with ease.
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Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freemanâs 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
âLook,â he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. âLook how skinny she is.â -
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; âI could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days.â
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