A ‘Race’ to Vaccinate, After South Africa Variant Is Detected in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina was already experiencing one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the nation when ...
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Coronavirus: Fresh data show toll S. African virus variant takes on vaccine efficacy
Clinical trial data on two COVID-19 vaccines show that a coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa is lessening ...
J&J says vaccine effective against Covid, though weaker against South Africa variant
A single shot of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine is effective at keeping people out of the hospital and ...
Novavax vaccine found effective against new UK Covid-19 variant
LONDON: Novavax, a vaccine undergoing trials for effectiveness against the novel coronavirus, has become the first immune dose to ...
Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 89 percent effective, but less so against South African variant
Novavax, which is based in Maryland, has never brought a vaccine to market. The Trump administration awarded the company ...
Novavax COVID vaccine highly effective, but not against South Africa variant
US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine candidate showed 89.3 percent efficacy in a major Phase ...
Novavax’s Vaccine Works Well — Except on Variant First Found in South Africa
“This is really worrisome,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine and the ...
Coronavirus: New Zealand confirms two new cases of COVID-19 variant
New Zealand confirmed two new cases of the more virulent South African Covid-19 strain in the community Thursday, as ...
Pfizer coronavirus vaccine slightly less effective against S.Africa variant: Study
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appeared to only lose a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus ...
First case of Brazil P.1 variant has been found in the United States: Why that’s a big deal
For the last two weeks, the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the United States has been trending ...