The company’s coming trials will also involve pregnant women and people whose immune systems are compromised.
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Where a Vaccination Campaign Faces Skepticism, War and Corruption
A half-million doses arrived this month in Afghanistan, where many insist the virus isn’t real and vaccines aren’t needed. Those who want the vaccine fear that only the well-connected will receive it.
U.K. Approves Study That Will Infect Volunteers With Covid
Researchers hope to learn things about how the immune system responds to the coronavirus that would be impossible outside a lab.
U.K. Approves Study That Will Deliberately Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus
Researchers are hoping to learn things about how the immune system responds to the coronavirus that would be impossible outside a lab.
Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba. Tourists May Be Inoculated.
Amid bread shortages, Cuba gets one step closer to a scientific milestone: the mass production of a coronavirus vaccine invented on the island.
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Sprawling winter storms across the U.S.
AstraZeneca’s Vaccine Does Not Work Well Against Virus Variant in South Africa
The bad news, coming nearly a week after a million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived in South Africa, was a big setback for the country.
Israel’s Covid Vaccination Results Point a Way Out of Pandemic
Covid cases fell dramatically and quickly among people who were vaccinated, Israeli studies found. It’s the strongest evidence yet that a robust vaccination program can tame the pandemic.
Russia’s Vaccine Is Safe and Effective, Published Study Shows
A peer-reviewed article in The Lancet shows the vaccine has an impressive 91.6 percent efficacy rate against the virus and is completely protective against severe cases of Covid-19.