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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.
When President Biden joined a push to set aside patents for Covid shots, he entered a roiling debate over how to ensure poor countries get enough vaccine.
CDC facing formidable challenges in convincing conservatives to get COVID-19 vaccines Public health experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are facing challenges — even struggling — as they try to figure out how to convince hesitant Republicans to take the COVID-19 vaccine, federal officials familiar with the situation told CNN. “It’s kind of a mess to figure out with this particular audience what resonates with them, because they see vaccines as taking away their freedom,” said one official. “It’s a hard climb for everyone in public health. It’s moving a ...
USA TODAY To prove their COVID-19 vaccines worked, companies had to enroll more than 100,000 participants in monthslong clinical trials. Next time, Peter Gilbert wants such tests to require only a few hundred people and eight weeks' time. To get there, Gilbert and others have to figure out how much protection people need to avoid hospitalization and death from COVID-19, or even to prevent getting infected at all. But 15 months after COVID-19 shut down most of the world, it's still not clear what level of immune protection is enough. "I haven't seen people tossing around a number, and I'm a li...
. (Tribune News Service) — To prove their COVID-19 vaccines worked, companies had to enroll more than 100,000 participants in monthslong clinical trials. Next time, Peter Gilbert wants such tests to require only a few hundred people and eight weeks' time. To get there, Gilbert and others have to figure out how much protection people need to avoid hospitalization and death from COVID-19, or even to prevent getting infected at all. But 15 months after COVID-19 shut down most of the world, it's still not clear what level of immune protection is enough. "I haven't seen people tossing around...