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Americans could be wearing masks for several months, Fauci says
From CNN Health s Naomi Thomas
Dr. Anthony Fauci listens to US President Joe Biden, out of frame, during a visit to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 11. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The relaxation of Covid-19 mitigation measures has to be done gradually, and there will be a need to wear masks for several more months, the US s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Friday on Good Morning America.
“You want to do it gradually and safely as opposed to just turning it on and off right away,” Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said when asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about whether it was safe for states to relax mask mandates and allow indoor dining again.
A lab study has found the vaccine effective against UK and South Africa variants. German Health Minister Jens Spahn has voiced his confidence in the EU's three approved vaccines.
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Germany Needs to Give Vaccine Production a Shot in the Arm
It only took pharmaceuticals producer BioNTech a few months to set up a new vaccine factory in Germany. Berlin should use the case as an example in efforts to boost production of the medicines urgently needed to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn: A carrot-and-stick approach is needed.
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Hope is arising between an environmentalist center and the mausoleum of German Nobel Prize laureate Emil von Behring. It can be found in handful of factory halls and administrative buildings on the outskirts of the German city of Marburg. Some of them are more than 100 years old, from the time when the factory was used to manufacture the first medicines used to treat tetanus. Now, the German biotech firm BioNTech is converting the site for the production of its COVID-19 vaccine. Beginning in March, the plant is expected to produce around 70 million doses a