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Non-league Chesterfield SLAMMED for ‘immoral’ queue-jumping as players and staff are given leftover Covid-19 vaccines… with some as young as 21 receiving the jab! The Covid-19 vaccine is currently reserved for over-70s as the rollout continues Non-league Chesterfield received leftover Pfizer jab from a local medical centre Medical staff were ‘horrified’ at the plot to … Read more
Denmark plans digital passport that will allow people who have had Covid vaccines to travel Finance minister put forward a ‘digital Corona passport’ for use in the summer Morten Boedskov said it was crucial ‘to be able to restart Danish society’ He said the passport would be phone application for ease and integration Similar tech … Read more
GSK strikes £132m deal with CureVac to develop vaccines for Covid variants as it reveals lacklustre annual results A total of £132m will be invested by GlaxoSmithKline into CureVac’s research Demand for GSK-made pain relief and digestive health products grew strongly GSK’s largest division, Pharmaceuticals, saw its sales drop 3% to £17.1bn By Harry Wise … Read more
Mixing Covid-19 jabs ‘can beat mutations’: Breakthrough as scientists suggest Oxford vaccine can be combined with Sputnik shot to offer enhanced coronavirus protection Mixing vaccines may boost the immune response and combat changing strains Trial results from yesterday show Sputnik is 92 per cent effective against Covid Only 16 of 16,500 people given it had … Read more
The Biden administration will start shipping COVID-19 vaccines directly to U.S. pharmacies next week, ramping up immunizations as new and potentially more serious variants are appearing, the White House said on Tuesday. Jeff Zients, coordinator of the president’s COVID-19 task force, said some 6,500 retail pharmacies around the country will receive a total of one million … Read more
Coronavirus vaccines could be tweaked to spark immunity against new variants in just three weeks, a top scientist has said. Professor Robin Shattock, an Imperial College London scientist who is working on booster shots, said experts could rapidly adapt the current crop of jabs, allowing them to be rolled out within a couple of months. … Read more
In New York City, black people make up nearly a quarter of the population, but only 11 percent of the people who have had COVID-19 shots. Latinx people make up 29 percent of the population, but have only received 15 percent of the shots available, according to data from Bloomberg. And when a mass vaccination … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted lockdown is working and vaccines are effective against coronavirus variants – but warned it is too early to take our ‘foot off the throat of the beast’. The PM struck a positive tone as he visited a vaccination site in Yorkshire, saying there was evidence of a ‘flattening and maybe even … Read more
The UK could send spare coronavirus vaccines to Ireland after the EU humiliatingly backed down in the bitter row over threat to British supplies. The success of the drive to secure jabs could mean that by the summer stocks can be shared with other countries – as Boris Johnson warned the pandemic cannot be tackled … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted lockdown is working and vaccines are effective against coronavirus variants – but warned it is too early to take our ‘foot off the throat of the beast’. The PM struck a positive tone as he visited a vaccination site in Yorkshire, saying there was evidence of a ‘flattening and maybe even … Read more