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Russia Is Developing A Covid-19 Vaccine For Pets And Mink

Domestic animals, such as cats and rabbits, are known to catch the virus and mink, the bedrock of the fur industry, have been culled in their millions due to widespread outbreaks.

Trump Reverses Early Vaccination Plan For White House Officials

President Donald Trump announced late on Sunday evening that White House staffers would receive the vaccine “somewhat later in the program” following reports that they would be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.

AstraZeneca, Oxford To Create Combination Covid-19 Vaccine With Russia’s Sputnik V

Many officials worried about how fast Russia developed and approved the vaccine, launching it without completing the large-scale clinical trials needed to prove safety and efficacy.

Australia Drops Promising Covid-19 Vaccine After Volunteers Falsely Tested Positive For HIV

A protein fragment used in the vaccine could induce an immune response great enough to signal a false positive in some HIV tests.

Sanofi-GSK Covid-19 Vaccine Delayed After Trials Show Poor Immune Response In Elderly

The vaccine will not be available until the last quarter of 2021.

How Safe Is Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine? Here’s What You Should Know About Reports Of Allergic Reactions In Britain

Two people reported severe allergic reactions to Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine when it was rolled out in the U.K.

Here Are All The World Leaders Who Say They’ll Get Vaccinated For Covid-19 Publicly To Boost Confidence

Many people are hesitant to take the new vaccines, which have been developed at record-breaking speed and, in some cases, with a previously unused technology.

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Is Latest World Leader To Step Up For Covid-19 Vaccine

He pledged to be the first to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine once it is approved.

U.K. Regulator Warns People With ‘Significant’ Allergies To Avoid Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine

The U.K. began widespread vaccination Tuesday after becoming the first western country to authorize the vaccine.

United Arab Emirates Claims China’s Sinopharm Vaccine Is 100% Effective At Preventing Moderate And Severe Covid-19

Health officials cite an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials but provided no data from the study.