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(Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s heath minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, which justifies stricter border controls.
(Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s health minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, and that stricter border controls are justified. “We don’t know the degree of that,” Matt Hancock said in an interview on Sky News on Sunday, commenting on the extent of any potential reduced efficacy of the vaccines. “In the meantime, we’ve got to have a...
Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks For Sick Elderly Patients After 23 Die "For those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences," the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said. Norwegian officials said 23 people had died a short time after receiving their first dose of vaccine. Norway said Covid-19 vaccines may be too risky for the very old and terminally ill, the most cautious statement yet from a European health authority as countries assess the real-world s...
Read more about Covid-19: Sinovac vaccine shows 78% efficacy in Brazil after data confusion on Business Standard. The protection rate, confirmed by Sao Paulo state officials, was derived from Sinovac's most advanced final-phase trials in Brazil involving about 13,000 participants
Bolsonaro Mistrusts Covid Vaccines and Brazil Is Falling Behind Bloomberg 1/8/2021 Julia Leite and Martha Beck (Bloomberg) -- Across the globe, presidents and prime ministers are scrambling to score precious vials of Covid vaccine to protect citizens and gain political favor. Not Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The president, who from the start has belittled the pandemic, refuses to be vaccinated, pooh-poohs any need to negotiate with drug companies and says the country will wait for prices to fall before buying syringes or needles. On Thursday, he said Brazilians don’t even wa...