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TEL AVIV — Israel’s Ministry of Health on Monday began offering a third dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to severely immunocompromised adults in what health experts say could be the first phase of an experiment to provide coronavirus booster shots for older people and the most vulnerable. The recommendation, […]
Pfizer and top U.S. health officials will meet today to discuss FDA authorization of a third vaccine dose that would act as a booster shot against COVID-19. The company told The Associated Press last week that early data from a booster study showed that antibody levels jumped by 5 to 10 times […]
La inmunidad contra el coronavirus podría durar años, posiblemente incluso toda la vida, en personas infectadas y luego vacunadas. Según un nuevo estudio, las vacunas COVID-19 fabricadas por Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna producen una fuerte reacción inmune en el cuerpo que puede proteger contra el virus durante años. Los últimos hallazgos […]
Un calendario mixto de vacunación bajo el que se administra una dosis de la inyección COVID-19 de Pfizer cuatro semanas después de una vacuna de AstraZeneca, producirá una mejor respuesta inmune que dar otra dosis de AstraZeneca, mostró este lunes 28 de junio un estudio de Oxford. El estudio, llamado Com-COV, comparó programas mixtos de dos dosis de las vacunas Pfizer y AstraZeneca, en lo que encontró que […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effective against the Delta variant of COVID-19, a Pfizer official in Israel said on Thursday. First identified in India, Delta is becoming the globally dominant version of the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization. “The data we have today, accumulating from […]
June 4, 2021 — The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine produces lower levels of antibodies against the Delta variant, known as B.1.617.2 and discovered in India, according to a new study published Thursday in The Lancet. The antibody levels also appear to be lower in older people and decline over time, which could mean that […]
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines effective against Indian variants: study. The lab-based study was carried out by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Center and is preliminary because it has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Full story: http://u.afp.com/UeMB
Desigualdad en la vacunación: “No es justo” Al atardecer del 13 de mayo, más de 1,38 mil millones de dosis de vacunas contra la COVID-19 habían sido administradas en 176 países, según el rastreador de Bloomberg. Pero el número solo cuenta una parte de la historia: Estados Unidos (4% de la […]
The messenger RNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) has 95% efficacy against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).1 Qatar launched a mass immunization campaign with this vaccine on December 21, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, a total of 385,853 persons had received at least one vaccine dose and 265,410 had completed the two doses. […]
The CDC is expected to sign off on the move Wednesday, making Thursday the first day shots could be available for children 12 to 15 years old. By Erika Edwards. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday lowered the age that people can receive Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the United States […]