The research in Israel - two months into one of the world's fastest rollouts, providing a rich source of data - showed two doses of the Pfizer shot cut symptomatic Covid-19 cases by 94% across all age groups, and severe illnesses by nearly as much .
The United States expects to roll out three to four million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine next week, pending authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said on Wednesday.
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Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO virus expert, also told a press briefing that work to identify the origins of the coronavirus points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it is unlikely that they were in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered in late 2019.
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A promising new study out of Canada offers data that some cannabis strains help reduce a specific type of inflammatory distress — called a “cytokine storm” —that precedes severe cases of acute respiratory distress due to Covid-19.
The immunological efficacy of the Russia-developed coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona is 100 per cent, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being said on Tuesday.
