Analysts offer 7 reasons why a covid 19 vaccine could fail

North Korea’s daily fever cases dropped to below 100,000 for the first time, state media said on Saturday, less than three weeks after the country’s first acknowledgement of a COVID-19 outbreak. The isolated country has been in a heated battle against an unprecedented COVID wave since declaring a state of emergency and imposing a nationwide lockdown this month, fuelling concerns about lack of vaccines, medical supplies and food shortages. Some 88,520 more people showed fever symptoms as of Friday evening, compared with nearly 400,000 about 10 days ago, the official KCNA news agency said, citing data from the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters. The total number of fever patients since April rose to 3.36 million among the 25 million population. KCNA did not report any additional death. As of Friday, the death toll stood at 69. North Korea has not confirmed the total number of people testing positive for the coronavirus, apparently lacking in testing supplies. … [Read more...] about North Korea Says New Fever Covid-19 Cases Under 100,000 as Virus Fight Heats Up

A scientist who accused a COVID-19 expert of hiding that the virus originated in a Chinese lab has been banned from spreading "fake news" after a legal challenge. Hamburg-based nanoscience specialist Professor Dr. Roland Wiesendanger alleged in an interview with German magazine Cicero , published in February of this year, that Professor Dr. Christian Drosten from Berlin's Charite Clinic was consciously refusing to tell people the truth about the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Wiesendanger further alleged there was evidence that a botched experiment at a Chinese lab was at the core of the pandemic. The court in Hamburg refused to make any ruling on this claim. Instead, judges ordered Wiesendanger to stop "deliberately spreading false information" about Drosten, the country's leading specialist, who he accused of a cover-up over whether the virus first emerged from a research lab in Wuhan, in central China. In February 2021, Wiesendanger, a nanoscience expert, released a … [Read more...] about Court bans expert from alleging cover-up of COVID-19 Chinese lab origins

COVID-19 vaccination seems to be a little disappointing for the British, who are claiming that it is making them lose teeth, develop flatulence and leaving them screaming, yawning or crying after the jab. The UK’s drug regulator, responsible for the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine, has reported bizarre side effects after Brits took AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. Officials have urged the public to report any health issues they have faced after the jabs resulting in a 65-page document of alleged side-effects. Teething, rare blood clots and crying have been reported to be some of the many odd side effects. Last week, 11 European nations halted the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccination driv e after a number of people developed blood clot on receiving the dose. However, on March 18, the European Medicines Agency declared the vaccine to be ‘safe and effective, putting the issue to rest and these countries resumed their rollout. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) … [Read more...] about UK Introduces ‘Yellow Card’ to Record Potential Side Effects of Vaccine as Britians Report Flatulence, Losing Teeth

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla lamented that his company has billions of unused COVID-19 vaccines sitting in warehouses during the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos Wednesday. Bourla said Pfizer has billions of doses waiting for use in low-income countries that have already been paid for by rich countries during a sit-down with WEF executive chairman Klaus Schwab. Bourla said the vaccine doses aren’t being used because the population in much of the developing world isn’t educated enough to create demand for them, and the countries may not have the infrastructure for widespread deployment of them. “What we discovered through the pandemic was that supply was not enough to resolve the issues that these countries are having,” Bourla told Schwab. “Right now, for example, there are billions of doses of our vaccine, the vaccine that was used in Europe, in the U.S., it was offered to low-income countries for free.” “They can’t use them right now, because we discovered … [Read more...] about Pfizer CEO Complains He Has Billions Of Vaccine Doses Sitting Around Because Nobody Wants Them

North Korea is pushing a coronavirus vaccination program for soldiers working on a Pyongyang construction project with a characteristically bizarre propaganda campaign that refers to the Chinese-made shots as an “immortal potion of love” and an affectionate gift from the “Highest Dignity,” a reverential name for dictator Kim Jong-un. Tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers have reportedly been assigned to work on a 50,000-unit housing project in the capital of Pyongyang. The project is supposed to be completed by the end of 2025, but progress was imperiled by North Korea’s first (admitted) outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. The solution, according to anonymous Pyongyang officials who spoke to Radio Free Asia (RFA), was to march the soldier-laborers into “field sanitation centers” and shoot them up with lamentably ineffective Chinese vaccines while loudspeakers blasted weird propaganda messages into their faces: “It was like it was a national political … [Read more...] about North Korea Gives Chinese Vaccines, Dubbed ‘Immortal Potion of Love,’ to Soldiers

A total of 58,009 children above the age of 12 years received COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, a statement issued by the Health department says. In the 15-17 years age group, 12,106 children received the vaccine while in the 12-14 years age group, 45,903 children were administered the vaccine on Friday. In the 15-17 years group, 5,249 children received the first vaccine dose, while 6,857 children received the second dose. In the 12-14 year age group, 35,887 received the first dose and 10,016 received the second dose. The Health department's campaign to vaccinate children against COVID-19 will continue till May 28, Saturday. A total of 1,440 vaccination centres functioned on Friday. Till date, the State has administered the first dose of vaccine to 82% children in the 15-17 year age group, while 54% have been given the second dose. Among the 12-14 year group, so far 48% have received the first dose and 13%, the second dose. … [Read more...] about 58,009 children above 12 get COVID shots

Over the last few weeks, you’ve probably had the same conversation I’ve been having: “We’re all going to get it, aren’t we?” “Yep.” Call it fatalism. Call it acceptance. Call it mental preparation. With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 ripping its way around the world, it’s just a matter of time before we all are exposed to COVID. Advertisement On Wednesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the number of new cases has exploded , as have hospitalizations, and the surge has yet to peak. The good news is that the new variant seems to cause less severe illness and does not appear to attack the lungs as viciously as earlier variants did. Opinion Columnist Robin Abcarian Read more from Robin Abcarian Anecdotes are not data, of course, but the way we are experiencing and thinking about COVID has definitely changed. “Over the next decade, give or take a few years, every single person on Earth has a date with this virus,” Vinay … [Read more...] about Column: Get vaccinated. Stay calm. It’s looking like we all might get COVID someday

LOS ANGELES, May 27 (Xinhua) -- A new U.S. research on long COVID suggests it can happen even after breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and older adults face higher risks for the long-term effects. About one-third who had breakthrough infections showed signs of long COVID, according to the study of veterans published Wednesday in Nature Medicine. The study reviewed medical records of mostly white male veterans, aged 60, on average. Of the 13 million veterans, almost 3 million had been vaccinated last year through October. About 1 percent, or nearly 34,000 people, developed breakthrough infections. Another study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that about one in five adults aged 18 and older in the United States has a health condition that might be related to their previous COVID-19 illness, compared with one in five younger adults. Long COVID refers to persistent symptoms or organ dysfunction after acute COVID-19, including … [Read more...] about Long COVID affects more older adults in U.S.: study

Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a permanent stay. Experts knew from early on that, for almost everyone, infection with this coronavirus would be inevitable. As James Hamblin memorably put it back in February 2020, “ You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus .” By this point, in fact, most Americans have. But now, as wave after wave continues to pummel the globe, a grimmer reality is playing out. You’re not just likely to get the coronavirus. You’re likely to get it again and again and again. “I personally know several individuals who have had COVID in almost every wave,” says Salim Abdool Karim, a clinical infectious-diseases epidemiologist and the director of the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, which has experienced five meticulously tracked surges, and where just one-third of the population is vaccinated . Experts doubt that clip of reinfection—several times a … [Read more...] about You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again

In the wake of an unspeakably violent tragedy , there’s often (and understandably) a fog of bad information floating around. Such is the case with the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas . The public was initially told that the 18-year-old who massacred 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School was encountered by a police officer before he entered the building. The new story is that “ he walked in unobstructed initially ” after roaming around outside for 12 minutes and firing shots . But the most infuriating new development is this: the Chief of the Uvalde Police Department says officers “ responded within minutes ,” but it took police an hour for a tactical unit to move in on the mass school shooter . I guess it depends on your definition of “responded.” The reason the police didn’t go in sooner? According to a Texas Department of Public Safety official, it was because “ they could’ve been shot .” Well, yes, that’s true—police … [Read more...] about Cops Are Only Human, But They Unforgivably Failed in Uvalde