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Pfizer quadruples price of COVID-19 vaccines

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Pfizer’s plan to quadruple US prices for its COVID-19 vaccine next year is beyond Wall Street’s expectations and will spur its revenue for years despite weaker than anticipated demand for the new booster shot so far, analysts said. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-covid-vaccine-price-hike-seen-giving-revenue-boost-years-2022-10-21/? The drugmaker, which developed and sells the vaccine with Germany’s BioNTech (22UAy.DE), said on Thursday evening […]

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BQ.1 Omicron strains increasing in prevalence

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United States (US) health regulators on Friday estimated that BQ.1 and closely related BQ.1.1 accounted for 16.6% of coronavirus variants in the country, nearly doubling from last week, while Europe expects them to become the dominant variants in a month. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said the variants are likely to drive

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COVID-19 deaths rise in England and Wales

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The number of COVID-related deaths in England and Wales increased by nearly 40% in a week and reached their highest number since August. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows some 400 deaths registered in the seven days to 7 October mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate. The figure climbed 39%

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Pourquoi certains efforts en matière de santé mondiale échouent-ils?

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Article original publié par Newsweek : Disponible sur https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSER RESPONSABLE DES SOLUTIONS GLOBALES POUR LES PATIENTS CHEZ GILEAD SCIENCES Le bilan mondial des décès officiellement attribués au COVID-19 s’élève à plus de 6,5 millions. Et lorsque les chercheurs incluent les décès qui sont probablement dus à la pandémie, le bilan est beaucoup plus

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Por que algumas iniciativas globais na área da saúde não estão sendo eficazes?

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Artigo original publicado pela Newsweek: Disponível em https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSER DIRETOR DA DIVISÃO “GLOBAL PATIENT SOLUTIONS” DA EMPRESA GILEAD SCIENCES O número oficial de mortos em decorrência da COVID-19 já ultrapassa 6,5 milhões de pessoas. E, quando nesta estatística os pesquisadores incluem os casos de mortes que de algum modo também estão associadas à pandemia,

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Why Are Some Global Health Efforts Failing?

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Original article published by Newsweek: Available at https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSERHEAD OF GLOBAL PATIENT SOLUTIONS AT GILEAD SCIENCES The worldwide death toll officially attributed to COVID-19 stands at more than 6.5 million. And when researchers include deaths that are likely due to the pandemic as well, the toll stands much higher. Many of these tragic deaths

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Long-COVID devastating lives according to WHO

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Long COVID is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, and wreaking havoc on health systems and economies, WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned as he urged countries to launch “immediate” and “sustained” efforts to tackle the “very serious” crisis. www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-who-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus? The world has never been in a

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Origins of COVID-19 once again spark debate

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The acrimonious debate over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic flared up again last week with a report from an expert panel concluding that SARS-CoV-2 likely spread naturally in a zoonotic jump from an animal to humans—without help from a lab. www.science.org/content/article/evidence-suggests-pandemic-came-nature-not-lab-panel-says “Our paper recognizes that there are different possible origins, but the evidence towards

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COVID-19 cases rise across Europe

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Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said last Wednesday. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982296?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=4751294&faf=1 “Although we are not where we were one year ago, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is

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US extends COVID-19 pandemic status

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The Biden administration extended the Covid-19 pandemic’s status as a public health emergency for another 90 days, preserving measures such as expanded Medicaid and higher payments to hospitals. The decision follows comments President Joe Biden made in September describing the pandemic as over. Some Republican lawmakers said afterward that the administration should wind down its

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