Month: February 2021

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine has shown remarkable results thus far, with a Dec. 2020 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting it’s 94.6 percent effective at preventing a symptomatic COVID infection after two doses. However, in a new interview with NBC News, Pfizer’s CEO is now saying that a third shot may be necessary to achieve full protection. Read on to discover why you might need to get a third shot, and for more vaccination news, check out This Other Vaccine Could Already Be Protecting You From COVID, Study Says. youngvet / iStockDuring an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explained that by adding an additional third booster shot to the r...

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California It has been detected in 19 countries and has a concentration in California, but should we be worried about this strain? Two new studies suggest that a Covid-19 variant first discovered in California has been spreading rapidly through the state.The findings come as the US ramps up its efforts to track and catalogue various forms of the mutating virus, and raise fresh questions about the circulation of the coronavirus in the country.Here’s what we know so far:What is the California variant?The variant, which is called B.1.427/B.1.429, first caught the attention of scientists in November 2020 and belongs to a lineage – a branch of the coronavirus family tree carrying similar mutations – that is thought to have emerged in May.The variant has been detected in 19 countries, and all ...

Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast. Is this it, then? Is this the beginning of the end? After a year of being pummeled by grim statistics and scolded for wanting human contact, many Americans feel a long-promised deliverance is at hand. We will win against the virus and regain many aspects of our pre-pandemic lives, most scientists now believe. Of the 21 interviewed for this article, all were optimistic that the worst of the pandemic is past. This summer, they said, life may begin to seem normal again. But — of course, there’s always a but — researchers are also worried that Americans, so close to the fini...