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South Africa has paused its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after a study showed that it offered "minimal protection" against mild or moderate illness caused by the more contagious virus variant first identified there, known as B.1.351.
South Africa has paused its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after a study showed that it offered "minimal protection" against mild or moderate illness caused by the more contagious virus variant first identified there, known as B.1.351.
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South Africa’s coronavirus strain upends country’s vaccination plans [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-ASTRAZENECA-VACCINE:LA] The coronavirus strain fueling a resurgence of COVID-19 in South Africa was not slowed down by a vaccine that officials had been counting on to protect its front-line health care workers, prompting the government to shelve plans for an inoculation campaign that would have begun this month. “We have decided to put a temporary hold on the rollout of the vaccine,” Dr. Zweli Mkhize, South Africa’s health minister, said Sunday. “More work needs to be done....
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 07February 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. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Summary: New US cases of Covid-19 t...
Worrying new coronavirus variants aren’t just imported — they can be home grown The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. Doctors had given him the antiviral drug remdesivir to fight the virus, anticoagulation drugs to prevent blood clots, immune modulators to try to control his out-of-control immune response and steroids to fight inflammation. He’d been home on and off but never seemed able fully recover. His blood oxygen would drop, although tests indicated he was negative for the virus. Dr. Jonathan Li, who leads a lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Bos...