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China locks down Chengdu following latest COVID-19 outbreak

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China has locked down Chengdu, one of its biggest and most economically important cities, as it turns once again to its COVID strategy of restricting people’s movements to stop outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/asia/china-covid-lockdown-chengdu.html Starting at 6 p.m. last Thursday, residents in the city of more than 21 million were no longer allowed to leave their homes without …

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Updated COVID-19 boosters get FDA emergency use authorisation; The latest health stories from around the world

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated booster vaccines, which target the BA.4/BA.5 coronavirus subvariants. www.science.org/content/article/omicron-booster-shots-are-coming-lots-questions? For the first time since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines look set to receive an update. Boosters reformulated to protect against the Omicron variant, which has …

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FDA approves another rare blood disorder treatment, sickle cell treatment on its way

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved a genetic treatment for the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, marking the third U.S. gene therapy for a rare disease. www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-new-gene-therapy-europe-s-drought-and-black-hole-s-photon-ring? The disorder causes low haemoglobin and severe anaemia, and the regular blood transfusions used to treat it can cause iron build-up that damages organs. The new treatment, …

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Still unvaccinated, Novak Djokovic unable to play in U.S. tennis Open 2022

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Unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic is not playing in the ongoing US Open because of his unvaccinated status, keeping him one Grand Slam title shy of Rafael Nadal’s record. www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/sports/tennis/novak-djokovic-us-open-coronavirus.html? The US has lifted many coronavirus restrictions, but unvaccinated foreigners are still not allowed to enter the country. Djokovic, who has had Covid at least …

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16 million Americans of working age report long Covid with four million out of work

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About 16 million Americans of working age have long Covid, and up to 4 million are out of work as a result, according to a report. Long Covid is affecting employment in other countries too: the Bank of England recently attributed the workforce shrinking by 440,000 largely to “increases in long-term sickness”.www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/long-covid-americans-workforce-brookings-report? But many workers are …

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Moderna sues rival Pfizer/BioNTech over patent violation of mRNA Covid vaccine

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The vaccine manufacturer Moderna has sued pharma major Pfizer and BioNTech, claiming that its rivals’ Covid-19 shot violates its patents protecting its ground-breaking technology www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/business/moderna-covid-vaccine-lawsuit.html Moderna said in a statement that Pfizer and BioNTech infringed on patents filed between 2010 and 2016 that covered its mRNA technology. Moderna, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., sued …

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Paxlovid appears to reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19 by 79% in those over 65

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The antiviral drug Paxlovid appears to reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19 by 79% and decrease hospitalizations by 73% in at-risk patients aged 65 and older, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The pill, which is a combination of the drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, received FDA emergency use authorization in …

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The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases leader, Fauci, is to step down in December

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Dr Anthony Fauci, the renowned physician-scientist who has led the $6.3 billion US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for nearly 4 decades and since early 2020 has been the United States (US) government’s voice of scientific reason during the COVID-19 pandemic, will step down from government service in December. www.science.org/content/article/he-battled-aids-covid-19-and-trump-now-anthony-fauci-stepping-down? Fauci became …

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The UK becomes the first country to approve a dual-strain COVID-19 booster; The latest health stories from around the world

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Last week the United Kingdom became the first country to approve an updated COVID-19 booster directed at two different strains of the coronavirus. The “bivalent” booster, made by Moderna, will have the same dose of messenger RNA as the company’s prior boosters but will target both the original version of the coronavirus and the first …

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Smallpox vaccine used to combat monkeypox; The latest health stories from around the world

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When monkeypox suddenly started spreading globally in May, the world was fortunate in one respect: A vaccine was available. MVA, originally developed by Bavarian Nordic as a smallpox vaccine, was already licensed for monkeypox in Canada and the United States (US). European Union (EU) regulators have since followed suit. Vaccine supplies are limited, and no …

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