Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering revising their COVID-19 guidelines to recommend that even fully vaccinated individuals wear masks in public. Fauci, the nation’s senior government infectious disease official, told CNN’s State of the Union that he had participated in talks about changing the policy, which he … Read more
Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca PLC, and the University of Oxford are doing early stage research into whether potential modifications to their coronavirus vaccines could reduce or eliminate the risk of rare but serious blood clots, the Wall Street Journal reported. Quoting sources described as being close to the process, the journal said that outside scientists … Read more
(Would you like to receive this newsletter in your inbox? Here is the registration.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. A mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, was the second in the US in less than a week. Ten people were killed in a supermarket in Boulder in Monday’s attack. The victims included a police officer, … Read more
AstraZeneca said Monday that advanced study data from a U.S. study on its vaccine shows it is 79% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective at halting serious illness and hospitalization. The first results are among the information AstraZeneca is required to provide to the Food and Drug Administration. An FDA advisory committee will … Read more