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Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study
New research from the UK provides the clearest indication yet of how protected fully vaccinated people are from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Based on ongoing surveillance data, researchers estimate that the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca are 50% to 60% effective at preventing infection from Delta, including asymptomatic cases. While the…
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Hospitalisations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds
Recent preliminary research from India may offer some more good news for people who have gotten covid-19 vaccines, even in the face of the more virulent Delta variant. The study found that fully vaccinated people who ended up hospitalised — itself a rare risk among the vaccinated — still had a lower chance of becoming…
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Report: Pfizer Raises Price of Covid-19 Vaccine by 25% in Europe
Pfizer is raising the price of its covid-19 vaccine in Europe by over 25% under a newly negotiated contract with the European Union, according to a report from the Financial Times. Competitor Moderna is also hiking the price of its vaccine in Europe by roughly 10%.
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Will Everyone Be Exposed to Covid-19 Eventually? It’s Complicated
This week, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance on masking for those fully vaccinated against covid-19, recommending that people living in areas of high transmission once again don masks while inside public spaces. The move came after the CDC obtained new data concerning the Delta variant, the most transmissible strain…