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Covid-19 Delta Variant More Easily Infects the Fully Vaccinated, Israel Finds
The Delta variant of the coronavirus may be substantially better than past strains at infecting fully vaccinated people, officials in Israel warned Monday. However, their conclusions have yet to be vetted by outside scientists, and vaccinated people still remain very well protected against more serious illness and death from the variant.
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How Worried Should Vaccinated People Be About the Delta Variant?
The arrival of the Delta variant — the recently emerged strain of the coronavirus thought to be the most transmissible yet — is understandably unnerving scientists and the public alike. But how worried should you exactly be about Delta, especially if you’re fully vaccinated already?
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EU Experts Say AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Safe After Clotting Concerns
As expected, the European Union’s health regulators are standing behind the covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. In a press conference today, officials with the European Medicines Agency said that their investigation has found no link between the vaccine and a higher overall risk of blood clots. And while the EU does plan…
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FDA Authorises J&J Covid-19 Shot, Adding Millions of Doses to Total Vaccine Supply
Yet another vaccine is now part of our arsenal of weapons against the covid-19 pandemic. On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the one-dose shot developed by Johnson & Johnson. It joins the two-dose mRNA vaccines developed by Modern and Pfizer/BioNTech.