The senior health officials are the latest to receive vaccines in public in order to boost public confidence, including President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence.
BioNTech’s CEO said on Tuesday that while it is currently unclear whether the vaccine can protect against the new U.K. strain, it is “highly likely” the shot can protect against new variants.
Many countries, including Canada, Russia, Italy, India and Hong Kong, have cut off travel ties with the U.K. in an attempt to contain a new rapidly-spreading Covid-19 variant.
The vice president, who is the most senior government official to receive the vaccine, said he believes “that history will record that this week is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic.”
The Fox News Host in his latest broadcast hyped up the apparent dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines being rolled out across the U.S., emphasizing isolated incidents of allergic reactions that medical experts say are expected given the number of people bei…
The United States’ top infectious disease official said even vulnerable people could be protected against the disease by fall if an overwhelming number of people are vaccinated in the first half of 2021.
The U.K.’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said the new mutant strain, which has infected over 1,000 people, could possibly impact the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, though said that would be “surprising.”
Britain was one of many countries that, like the United States, barred gay and bisexual men from donating blood in what campaigners brand a discriminatory hangover from the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis.