European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer is pictured during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2020. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The European Commission says the message to vaccine makers is very clear and is calling on them to do their utmost to comply with the contracts they’ve signed with the bloc, its chief spokesperson … Read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on March 4. Markus Schreiber/AP Germany will stretch the interval between administering the first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccines “to its maximum,” Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday. She said there will be a 42-day gap for the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech shot and a 12-week one … Read more
Spain’s Princess Elena, left, and Princess Cristina. Ballesteros/Pool/Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccinations of two Spanish princesses in the United Arab Emirates — much earlier than they would have received them in Spain — have sparked controversy since the news was first reported by El Confidencial digital newspaper in Madrid. Several Spanish ministers on Wednesday publicly … Read more
A medic prepares a dose of the Covaxin vaccine at Hindu Rao Hospital on February 16, in New Delhi, India. Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Getty Images India’s home-grown Covaxin vaccine is 81% effective against Covid-19, according to early data released Wednesday. The vaccine was jointly developed by the company Bharat Biotech and the government-run Indian Council of Medical Research. … Read more
The tiny remote Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean could “become the first island to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,” the British Military said Friday. The island – a UK overseas territory – has a population of just over 800 inhabitants. At least 1,950 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived at Ascension earlier … Read more
People of color have been vastly underrepresented in US-based vaccine trials for the last decade, according to a new study released Friday by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Harvard, Emory and other institutions. The study, which examined data from 230 vaccine trials with nearly 220,00 participants, found that White people made up the … Read more
A pharmacist administers a Covid-19 vaccine at a Walmart Pharmacy in Danvers, Massachusetts, on February 1. Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Demand for coronavirus vaccines is outstripping supply in the federal retail pharmacy program for the United States. CNN finds appointments are filling up quickly. Many pharmacies told CNN this week that they can receive and … Read more
A person receives the Gam-COVID-Vac Covid-19 vaccine, also known as Sputnik V, in Moscow on January 2. Sergei Savostyanov/TASS/Getty Images The Kremlin on Thursday said it’s happy with the pace of its domestic vaccination campaign as it prepares to launch production of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine across “a number of foreign countries” in order … Read more
Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration is again increasing its weekly Covid-19 vaccine supply being sent to states, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday. During a call with governors, White House Covid coordinator Jeff Zients informed the officials that the administration is “increasing the vaccine supply to 13.5 million doses per … Read more
