Despite global pledges on vaccine supply, only 7% of Africa’s population is vaccinated. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images Despite global pledges on vaccine supply, only 7% of Africa’s population is vaccinated. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images The world has “lost theContinue Reading
We’re covering W.H.O. worries about the vaccine gap and tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Will boosters worsen the vaccine gap? As wealthy nations step up their booster campaigns to confront the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization is concerned that vaccine equity could be further undermined. “Broad-basedContinue Reading
The detection of the Omicron variant has brought renewed attention, and a new urgency, to the worldwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which experts say remains among the most powerful tools at our disposal when it comes to preventing dangerous new variants. Most wealthy countries have vaccinated significant shares of their populationsContinue Reading
U.S. Senators Charles Grassley and Johnny Ernst, elected from the Republican Party of Iowa, voted Wednesday to pass a Senate resolution repealing President Joe Biden’s vaccine or test mandate for private employers.The resolution was approved by two Democrats, Senator John Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.Federal courtsContinue Reading
A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Wednesday that people might need a fourthContinue Reading
Nurse Mary Ezzat administers a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot to Jessica M. at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images South African scientists say the Covid omicron variant significantly reduces antibodies generated by PfizerContinue Reading
The day before announcing a new vaccine mandate for employees at religious and private schools in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio held a call with eight Jewish leaders to brief them on his plans. The leaders expressed concern about the disruptions that a vaccine requirement could cause atContinue Reading
The coronavirus vaccine mandate for private employers in New York City, announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, pushed the city’s workplace vaccination requirements well beyond those in most of the country, where local mandates are generally limited to the public sector and health care. “It’s a significantly moreContinue Reading
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate for all private employers in New York City on Monday morning to combat the spread of the Omicron variant. Mr. de Blasio said the aggressive measure, which takes effect Dec. 27 and which he described as the first of itsContinue Reading
WATERLOO – Over the weekend, the state was left without power for more than eight hours to store excess vaccines, which revealed that no vaccines, including some doses of COVID-19, had been destroyed, but that the building’s backup generator was not working. as desired.Black Hawk District Health Director Nafissa CisseContinue Reading