World wide, U.S COVID cases drop for third week.

Feb

Covid infections plummet 90% from U.S. pandemic high, states lift mask mandates

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Hospitalizations have also fallen sharply. There are about 66,000 patients in U.S. hospitals with Covid as of Monday, according to a seven-day average of data from the Department of Health and Human Services, down from the Jan. 20 peak of 159,000 patients.

The Covid death toll, which typically lags a rise in cases by a number of weeks, is elevated but showing signs of easing. Average daily deaths reached the highest level in about a year on Feb. 1 at nearly 2,600 per day and have since fallen below 2,000. ...

ALSO SEE: WHO: New COVID cases fall for the 3rd week, deaths also drop

GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21% in the last week, marking the third consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Omicron-targeted vaccine is delayed -

Feb

Pfizer and BioNTech Omicron-targeted vaccine delayed - BioNTech CEO Delivery of Pfizer and BioNTech SE's vaccine to combat the Omicron COVID-19 variant was delayed by several weeks due to a slower-than expected data gathering process, BionTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin told Germany's Bild on Thursday. Reuters Reuters

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Overview: International developments summary

Feb

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus A new wave of infections from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is moving towards the east of Europe, the World Health Organization said, urging authorities to improve vaccination and other measures. Reuters Reuters

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Researchers gain new insights into antibody response against viral COVID variants

Jan

Researchers gain new insights into antibody response against viral COVID variants In the journal Science, researchers from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin present new findings on the immune response against the ... Science X staff

In the journal Science, researchers from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin present new findings on the immune response against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Their study is based on investigations of antibodies elicited by infection with the Beta variant of the virus.

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Pfizer and BioNTech announce plans to test omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine in adult trials

Jan

Pfizer and BioNTech announce plans to test omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine in adult trials Pfizer and BioNTech will conduct three simultaneous trials in adults to determine if an omicron-specific vaccine is more effective than current shots. YahooNews

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South Africa study shows boosters failed to block omicron, bolstering case for face masks, distancing and hand washing

Jan

South Africa study shows boosters failed to block omicron, bolstering case for face masks, distancing and hand washing A study of some of the first breakthrough cases of COVID-19 caused by the highly infectious omicron variant found that booster shots of the mRNA vaccines... Ciara Linnane MarketWatch

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Studies: COVID contagiousness may linger beyond five days; COVID-19 worse for vapers

Jan

Contagiousness may linger beyond five days; COVID-19 worse for vapers The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Nancy Lapid Reuters

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BioNTech has developed a method to predict new high-risk variants of COVID-19

Jan

BioNTech has developed a method to predict new high-risk variants of “More than 10,000 novel variant sequences are currently discovered every week and human experts simply cannot cope with complex data at this scale,” said Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep. Shirin Ali TheHill

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Pfizer CEO says omicron vaccine will be ready in March

Jan

Pfizer CEO says omicron vaccine will be ready in March Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the goal is to product a vaccine that is much better at preventing infection from omicron. Spencer Kimball CNBC

fizer CEO Albert Bourla said a vaccine that targets the omicron variant of Covid will be ready in March, and the company’s already begun manufacturing the doses.

“This vaccine will be ready in March,” Bourla told CNBC’s Squawk Box. “We (are) already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk.”

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