Posts Tagged: Covid vaccine
New Israeli Research Could Make COVID Vaccines Unnecessary
i24 News - A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University has identified two antibodies that neutralize all known strains of Covid-19, potentially eliminating the...
Israeli Study: Second Vaccine Booster Significantly Lowers COVID Death Rate
Senior citizens who received a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had a 78% lower mortality rate from the disease than those who got one only, a study from Israel showed...
Global Quest Underway to Speed COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Scientists are working on a benchmark for COVID-19 vaccine efficacy that would allow drugmakers to conduct smaller, speedier human trials to get them to market...
Saudi Arabia Bars Foreign Travelers from Haj Over COVID-19
Saudi Arabia has restricted the annual Haj pilgrimage to its own citizens and residents for the second year running in response to the coronavirus pandemic,...
US Vaccinations in 2020 Falling Far Short of Target of 20 Million People
Only about 2.6 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the...
Iran Starts Human Testing of First Domestic COVID-19 Vaccine
Iran launched human trials of its first domestic COVID-19 vaccine candidate, state media reported on Tuesday, which Tehran said could help it defeat the pandemic...
Rabbis and Jewish Ethicists Encourage COVID-19 Vaccine Use
JNS.org - As the US government launched the largest vaccine distribution program in the country’s history, rabbis and Jewish ethicists were united in support of...
Knowledge Is Key, Opinion Is Ignorance
Allen Saunders (1899–1986) was an American writer, journalist, and cartoonist, best known for his syndicated comic strip Steve Roper and Mike Nomad. Less well-known is...
Moderna’s Israeli Medical Exec ‘Awed’ by Vaccine Results
JNS.org - As Israel marks its 2,737th death from COVID-19 this week, and with 817 new infections confirmed on Tuesday alone, hopes are pinned on...
