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WRNMC researchers have found a way to create a vaccine that can recognize multiple spike proteins at once by using ferritin. Here’s more about pan coronavirus vaccine.
News that a subvariant of the Omicron variant has appeared in the U.S. and parts of Europe doesn’t seem like good news. The latest data suggest it’s 1.5 times more transmissible than the original Omicron variant, but not necessarily deadlier.
Clinical trial news definitely picked up this final week of January. Here’s a look.
Researchers are expressing concern about a subvariant of Omicron dubbed BA.2 that appears to be tearing through Denmark. For that and more COVID-19 news, continue reading.
Although most of the news about the effectiveness and endurance of COVID-19 vaccines has focused on antibody titers, not as much has been reported on their effect on other parts of the immune system that offer longer-term protection, such as T cells. For that and more, continue reading.
Pfizer hopes to step in to ensure that no trade secrets are disclosed when the regulatory agency begins to share that information.
In the last two years, the sheer volume of scientific research focused on COVID-19 has been astounding—thousands of clinical studies, dozens of vaccines and new compounds, and hundreds of approved drugs tested for efficacy against COVID-19.
Some might go as far as to consider the pharmaceutical industry as mankind’s best hope for survival. But now, as the world enters the third year of the pandemic, has that perception changed?
Much has been made about the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines, but a new study found a startlingly high number of adverse events associated with people who received placebos in clinical trials.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the mandate earlier this month, stating that OSHA had overstepped its authority.
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