WHO asks rich countries to delay child vax, donate jabs
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London, May 16 : Rich nations must delay their plans to vaccinate their children and teenagers against Covid-19 and instead donate the jabs to low-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. In a handful of rich countries, which bought up the majority of the vaccine supply, lower risk groups are now being vaccinated, WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual conference in Geneva on Friday. I understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents, but right now I urge them to reconsider and to instead donate vaccines to Covax, Ghebreyesus said.
In delivering vaccines, pharmaceutical companies aided by monumental government investments have given humanity a miraculous shot at liberation from the worst pandemic in a century. But wealthy countries have captured an overwhelming share of the benefit.
Rich nations must delay their plans to vaccinate their children and teenagers against Covid-19 and instead donate the jabs to low-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. In a handful of rich countries, which bought up the majority of the vaccine supply, lower risk groups are now being vaccinated, WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual conference in Geneva on Friday. I understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents, but right now I urge them to reconsider and to instead donate vaccines to Covax, Ghebreyesus said. The statement comes as, last week, the US, Canada and Switzerland laid out plans to begin coronavirus vaccine shots for adolescents.
Ames Tribune
Vaccines could need to adapt to mutations of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and an Iowa State University researcher has found a way to possibly overcome some of the challenges associated with that.
Michael Cho, an ISU biomedical sciences professor, is studying how to develop vaccines that target the part of the virus that attaches to cells and allows for infection to happen.
That part of the virus spike protein is called the receptor-binding domain, or RBD. Cho likened the RBD to the teeth and notches of a key that actually enter a lock a smaller part of the whole where the most important things happen for getting something open.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 09May 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January hig