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More than a dozen frontrunners have reached late-stage clinical trials.Many of the other candidates, however, will fail somewhere along the vaccine development pipeline, which includes three rounds of clinical trials with increasingly large pools of volunteers to assess their safety, efficacy, and ability to prompt a response from the immune system. And for those that achieve authorization, there remain important questions that we’ll need more time and further research to answer, including how long the immunity they offer from COVID-19 lasts.
More than a dozen frontrunners have reached late-stage clinical trials.Many of the other candidates, however, will fail somewhere along the vaccine development pipeline, which includes three rounds of clinical trials with increasingly large pools of volunteers to assess their safety, efficacy, and ability to prompt a response from the immune system. And for those that achieve authorization, there remain important questions that we’ll need more time and further research to answer, including how long the immunity they offer from COVID-19 lasts. A two- dose regimen of the vaccine has an efficacy of 95% in people ages 16 and older, though FDA briefing documents also note that the vaccine appears to provide "some protection" against Covid-19 after just one dose . The arrival of the vaccine comes at a critical time. On Monday afternoon, the national death toll from coronavirus -related reasons surpassed 300,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The US also recorded 110,549 current Covid-19 hospitalizations on Monday, setting a record high since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
Since the first positive results on vaccines have come out, a lot of people have asked me if I think everyone should take them? For some reason, a number of people out there trust my judgement on such things. I noticed that the Daily Mail recently ran a poll, which showed that three quarters of Up to now, vaccination has meant injecting a dead virus (or bacteria), or one that has been weakened and can only poorly replicate, or parts of the virus, or suchlike. Once inside the body, the immune system spots this ‘alien’ material, and creates a response against it, which will hopefully be remembered for
NBA fans hoping to see an exciting matchup of dynamic duos Tuesday night were met with instant disappointment.
Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard was ruled out of a national TV game against the Celtics because of back spasms. The 29-year-old was seen warming up at TD Garden but left the court shortly before tipoff. During the first quarter, Los Angeles officially announced Leonard would not be available.
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Reggie Jackson replaced Leonard in the Clippers' starting lineup, joining Patrick Beverley, Paul George, Nicolas Batum and Serge Ibaka. During a midgame interview with TNT analyst Grant Hill, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue emphasized that no one player would be able to fill the void left behind by Leonard.
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Pandemic news from around the world.A 90-year-old woman (who will turn 91 next week) became the first in the world to be given Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine outside of clinical trials, according to the BBC. Margaret Keenan, who is originally from Northern Ireland, was given the vaccine at the University Hospital in Coventry, England. She received the first of 800,000 doses expected to be administered in the U.K. in the coming weeks, according to the BBC. "I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19," Keenan said, according to the BBC. New York Administers Its First Coronavirus Vaccine . Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, received the coronavirus vaccine during a news conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “We’ve seen well over 100,000 Covid patients, and at New York officials expect to receive the Pfizer vaccine in three waves this week from Kalamazoo, Mich., where the drugmaker has its largest manufacturing site. Most of the shipments are anticipated to land in Albany, New York ’s capital, and New York City , and they will go to about 90 sites, mostly hospitals
Some people have reported experiencing more side effects when getting their second doses of the Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine compared to when they got their first doses . For example, the COVID Symptom Study website states that “after effects are more common the second I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order. Currently, I am a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, Executive Director
"[We can't] try to do it by ourselves. [It's] doing it by committee," Lue said. "Reggie's done a good job. [George] got off to a good start. Just gotta be better defensively."
This marks the second Celtics-Clippers game this season that has failed to deliver a George and Leonard vs. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum battle. George and Brown sat out the only other meeting between Boston and Los Angeles last month. Brown and Tatum were both active for Tuesday's contest, but George was forced to carry the offensive load without Leonard in the first half, scoring 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting.
Leonard has now missed eight games this season: one game with back spasms, two games with a mouth laceration, two games as part of health and safety protocols and three games with a leg contusion. He is averaging 26.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, and he was named an All-Star starter last month.
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