Groton The site leader at the Pfizer Inc. labs here says about 200 colleagues locally have been so focused on developing a vaccine to battle COVID-19, it s only now sinking in that they were part of a historic effort over the past year that likely saved millions of lives. I think we re only now starting to reflect, said John Burkhardt, a senior vice president at Pfizer who runs the company s largest research and development center in Groton, in a phone interview March 5. When you re going through this, you get this laser-like focus on delivery.
Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer, in a note to company employees that coincided with the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, praised the effort of everyone involved in delivering the world s first vaccine to protect against a disease that has claimed the lives of more than 2 million worldwide and over 500,000 in the United States.
Outbreak of Mysterious Paralyzing Condition Squashed by COVID–19 Pandemic
14 MARCH 2021
The grim pall of the COVID-19pandemic ensures that 2020 will go down as an infamous year in the history of human disease.
But this dark chapter held some surprises we can be thankful for, too. In a new study, researchers found that a predicted 2020 outbreak of a mysterious paralyzing illness failed to materialize on schedule – and in a weird way, we actually have the coronavirus to thank for it.
The condition in question is called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). This polio-like neurological disease mainly affects children, causing muscle weakness and, in some cases, permanent paralysis and even death.
As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
Julia Bergman
As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday listed the Covid-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S, developed by Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), for emergency use in all countries. The organization has also a
By Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - Three health workers in Norway who had recently received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are being treated in hospital for bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets, Norwegian health authorities said on Saturday. Norway halted the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Thursday, following a similar move by Denmark. Iceland later followed suit. We do not know if the cases are linked to the vaccine, Sigurd Hortemo, a senior doctor at the Norwegian Medicines Agency told a news conference held jointly with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. All three individuals were under the age of 50. The European medicine regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA,) would investigate the three incidents, Hortemo said. They have very unusual symptoms: bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets, Steinar Madsen, Medical Director at the Norwegian Medicines Agency told broadcaster NRK. They are quite sick.We take thi