Covid Vaccine Rollout Urgent As New Strains Take Hold By Kelly MACNAMARA, Marlowe HOOD
01/29/21 AT 12:17 PM
The international spread of more infectious coronavirus strains has made inoculating a maximum number of people as quickly as possible more urgent than ever, experts say.
Vaccines are already being rolled out across 73 countries or territories, with more than 86.5 million doses administered so far, including 26 million in the United States and 22.7 million in China according to an AFP tally Thursday.
But with concerns mounting that new strains could evade immunity protection from either prior infection or immunisation, the global vaccine drive needs to be fast and flexible if it is going to stay one step ahead of the virus.
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Covid-19 sniffing dogs: What does the science say? CNN 1/28/2021
The Miami Heat is unleashing the dogs.
As AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami reopens to a limited number of fans Thursday, the Miami Heat is bringing out dogs it is billing as coronavirus detection dogs to screen guests and employees as they arrive at the facility. The team will be the first in the NBA to use canines to screen the public.
The science isn t yet clear whether dogs can, in fact, detect coronavirus infection in people. The team has been trying the dogs out on a smaller scale to screen personnel and we learned a lot during that time, Matthew Jafarian, Miami Heat s executive vice president for business strategy, told CNN.
A nurse preparing a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at a mass vaccination centre in Surrey. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/EPA
Sharing UK Covid vaccines with countries in Europe and beyond is in the UK’s best interests, scientists have said, as the row over supplies intensifies.
A dispute has sprung up between the UK and EU over the supply of Covid vaccines, after the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca told the EU it would not be able to deliver all of the doses ordered by the end of March due to production problems at plants on the continent. AstraZeneca said its contract with the UK meant doses could only be shipped from UK plants to Europe once the UK had received the 100m doses it had ordered.