(Reuters) – Tractor trailers filled with suitcase-sized containers of the COVID-19 vaccine will leave a manufacturing facility at Pfizer Inc.’s Kalamazoo in Michigan on Sunday morning – starting the largest and most complex vaccine distribution project in the United States, where the virus is present. Raging. Late Friday, U.S. regulators …
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(Reuters) – More than 1,300 people in Britain have been falsely reported to have been infected with coronavirus following a government error in the government’s NHS testing and trace system, the Department of Health and Social Care told Reuters on Saturday. Following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on September …
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(Reuters) – Global deaths from COVID-19 have reached 1 million, but experts are still struggling to find a critical metric in epidemics: mortality – the percentage of people who die from a pathogen infection. Here’s a look at the issues to better understand COVID-19 mortality. How is the mortality rate …
Read More »Japan, in the run-up to the Olympics, produces half a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is taking an aggressive step to seize enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times, a pressure that the government hopes to instill confidence that it can host a delayed Olympic Games next year. FILE PHOTO: People in traditional costume kimonos, wearing protective masks as …
Read More »University of Cambridge strives for autumn trials of coronavirus vaccine to UK funding
FILE PHOTO: An almost empty street is seen outside Cambridge University, as the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease continues, Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Couldridge LONDON (Reuters) – The University of Cambridge is set to begin clinical trials in the autumn of its possible coronavirus vaccine after …
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