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BRUSSELS — The European Union exported 25 million doses of vaccines produced in its territory last month to 31 countries around the world, with Britain and Canada the top destinations, just as the bloc saw its own supply cut drastically by pharmaceutical companies, slowing down vaccination efforts and stoking a political crisis at home.

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Italy becomes first EU country to make a deal to produce Rusian vaccine

Wed, 2021-03-10 01:15 — mike kraft

Russia to make Sputnik V vaccine in Italy, a first in EU MILAN (AP) — Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.... AP NEWS

MILAN (AP) — Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.

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Global Covid-19 recovery hampered by slow pace of vaccine deliveries to Africa

Tue, 2021-03-09 16:03 — mike kraft

Slow pace of vaccine delivery risks global COVID-19 recovery Jumbo jets carrying pallets of coronavirus vaccines touched down last week in Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, the Gambia, the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where pilots posed for happy, masked photographs with health ministers a Reid Wilson TheHill

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Roundup of some of the latest studies on treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus

Tue, 2021-03-09 00:05 — mike kraft

Vaccine response may be weaker in elderly; Merck drug shows promise in reducing virus level The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Nancy Lapid U.S.

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Studies indicate Pfizer and Chinese vaccines may be effective against Brazilian variant

Mon, 2021-03-08 23:53 — mike kraft

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine neutralizes Brazil variant in lab study The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday. Michael Erman U.S.

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CDC's new guidance for persons fully vaccinated: OK for small groups indoors, but still masks in public

Mon, 2021-03-08 23:16 — mike kraft

Covid-19 Live Updates: Vaccinated People May Meet Indoors in Small Groups but Should Still Mask in Public, C.D.C. Says Syria’s leader tests positive for the virus. New York City public high schools are scheduled to reopen on March 22. nytimes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday issued long-awaited advice to Americans fully vaccinated against Covid-19, freeing them to take some liberties that the unvaccinated should not, including gathering indoors in small groups without precautions while still adhering to masking and distancing in public spaces.

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