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The Associated Press India the worlds largest vaccine producer will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April the health minister said Monday. Mansukh Mandaviya said the surplus vaccines will be used to fulfill Indias commitment towards the world for the collective fight against COVID19 but vaccinating Indians will remain the governments topmost priority. India was expected to be a key supplier for the world and for the U.N.backed initiative aimed at vaccine equity known as COVAX. It began exporting doses in January but stopped doing so to inoculate its own population during a massive surge in infections in April that pushed Indias health system to the breaking point https://apnews.com/article/business-health-india-coronavirus-pandemic-global-trade-dd27157bb33e91ec7d11ffa5589f89c7 21st Sep 2021

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The Associated Press COVID19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 191819 Spanish flu pandemic did approximately 675000. The U.S. population a century ago was just onethird of what it is today meaning the flu cut a much bigger more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right especially given the incredible advances in scientific knowledge since then and the failure to take maximum advantage of the vaccines available this time. Big pockets of American society and worse their leaders have thrown this away medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said of the opportunity to vaccinate everyone eligible by now. https://apnews.com/article/science-health-pandemics-united-states-coronavirus-pandemic-c15d5c6dd7ece88d0832993f11279fbb 21st Sep 2021

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Bloomberg The U.S. will soon allow entry to most foreign air travelers as long as theyre fully vaccinated against Covid19 while adding a testing requirement for unvaccinated Americans and barring entry for foreigners who havent gotten shots. The measures announced Monday by the White House are the most sweeping change to U.S. travel policies in months and widen the gap in rules between vaccinated people who will see restrictions relaxed and the unvaccinated. The new rules will replace existing bans on foreigners travel to the U.S. from certain regions including Europe. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-20/u-s-to-ease-restrictions-on-travel-from-eu-and-u-k-ft-reports?utm_source=google&amputm_medium=bd&ampcmpId=google 20th Sep 2021

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Evening Standard New Zealand eased coronavirus curbs slightly in Auckland on Monday as the government expressed confidence that there was no widespread regional transmission of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. But tough restrictions will continue even after midnight on Tuesday when the alert level drops to 3 from 4 in the city of about 1.7 million at the centre of the latest Delta outbreak. Schools and offices must still keep closed for instance with businesses limited to offering only contactless services. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/new-zealand-auckland-covid-coronadirus-lockdown-jacinda-ardern-b956192.html 20th Sep 2021

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Metro.co.uk World Cup 2022 hosts Qatar are pushing to make it mandatory for all players who compete at next years tournament to have had both Covid19 vaccinations. The Qatari government has already announced that any fans who attend the tournament next November will need to be fully vaccinated and now that ruling could also extend to the players and coaching staffs taking part too. According to The Athletic Qatari medical authorities have been in talks with FIFA and other stakeholders in an effort to ensure all participating players are double jabbed. https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/20/qatar-wants-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-for-all-world-cup-footballers-15284988/ 20th Sep 2021

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Al Jazeera English Only 60 people in Singapore have died from COVID19 since the pandemic first emerged and some 82 percent of its population is now fully vaccinated against the disease. In June the government announced it would move towards a living with COVID19 strategy focusing on tracking and treating outbreak clusters with vaccinations and hospital admissions but without the strict lockdowns border closures and workfromhome orders that have been the defining feature of much of the pandemic across the world. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/20/can-we-live-with-covid-19-singapore-tries-to-show-how 20th Sep 2021

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Huffington Post The White House is to lift the US travel Covid ban and allow fully vaccinated arrivals from the UK and Europe to enter the country from early November. Other countries including Brazil China India Iran Ireland and South Africa will also be included in the new policy. Passengers will not need to quarantine upon arrival but will need to prove they were vaccinated before boarding a flight and provide a negative Covid test which was taken within the last three days. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/us-travel-ban-fully-vaccinated-travellers_uk_614889f1e4b077b735e8a717?ncid=other_twitter_cooo9wqtham&amputm_campaign=share_twitter 20th Sep 2021

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The Wall Street Journal India will resume exports of Covid19 vaccines starting next month government officials said Monday in a move likely to aid developing nations that have struggled to vaccinate their populations after New Delhi restricted shipments amid resurgence of cases at home. The exports would be a mix of donations and commercial deals and would include shipments to Covax a World Health Organizationsupported facility aimed at getting vaccines to developing countries. India has been a major supplier to Covax. When it resumes exporting India will accord priority to neighboring countries Africa and Latin America according to an Indian government official familiar with the plan. The official declined to detail how many vaccines India plans to export. India exported 66 million doses to 95 countries before temporarily restricting the shipments in early April to help ease supply shortages as Covid19 cases rose rapidly in the country last spring. https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-to-resume-covid-19-vaccine-exports-to-developing-nations-11632155352 20th Sep 2021

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The New York Times The Nenets are one of the few Indigenous minorities on the Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia. Their lifestyle is nomadic following the seasonal migrations of the reindeer they herd. While Covid brought travel to a halt in much of the world the Nenets of Yamal kept moving. From December to April the herders deploy their camps and pasture their reindeer in the Nadymski district a region of some 40000 square miles at the base of the Yamal Peninsula and centered on the city of Nadym. In midApril they begin kaslanie a season of nomadism traveling with their herds some 400 miles up the peninsula and moving camp 30 to 100 times during the year. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/science/russia-covid-vaccine-yamal.html 20th Sep 2021

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Daily Mail New body promises to put a stop to unfair late and overpriced Covid travel tests. It comes after the Government promised to crackdown on Covid cowboys. However one member of the new group appears to be in breach of its own rules https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10009379/New-body-launched-self-regulate-Covid-testing-amid-No10s-crackdown-exploitative-firms.html 20th Sep 2021

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The Guardian In March WHO compared Europes Covid vaccine rollout unfavourably with the UKs calling it unacceptably slow. As late as April only 11 of the blocs population had received at least one shot compared with 29 in the US and 46 in Britain. But last week according to Our World in Data the picture looked different. Nine EU countries including Portugal Spain Ireland France Belgium and Italy have now administered one or both doses of a Covid19 vaccine to a larger share of their populations than the UK with a further five having overtaken the US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/slow-but-steady-has-seen-the-eu-win-out-in-the-vaccine-race 20th Sep 2021

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The Guardian More than 100m Covid vaccine doses are due to expire and be thrown away unless global leaders urgently share surplus supplies with the worlds poorest countries Gordon Brown has warned. The staggering number of stockpiled use now jabs will be of no use to anyone by December according to a new report from the research group Airfinity. The former prime minister said the failure of Boris Johnson Joe Biden and EU leaders to agree on a plan to distribute the spare doses meant the world was facing a vaccine waste disaster. Brown has sent Airfinitys research to leading politicians including the US president the UK prime minister and senior figures in Brussels before a global vaccine summit on Wednesday. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/gordon-brown-calls-for-urgent-action-to-avert-covid-vaccine-waste-disaster 20th Sep 2021

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DW (English) German Health Minister Jens Spahn said that a vaccine for children under 12 will likely be available from the first quarter of 2022. Spahn also expects approval for a vaccine for youth to go through by the beginning of next year. I am assuming that the approval for a vaccine for children under 12 years of age will come in the first quarter of 2022 Spahn told Funke media group. Then we could protect the younger ones even better. A recommendation from the Standing Committee on Vaccination STIKO will also come a little later in this case he added. BioNTech for example announced a few days ago that it would apply for approval of its coronavirus vaccine for children between the ages of five and eleven in the coming weeks. https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-germany-to-offer-vaccines-to-children-in-2022/a-59238911 20th Sep 2021

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The Independent India will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April the health minister said. Mansukh Mandaviya said the surplus vaccines will be used to fulfill Indias commitment towards the world for the collective fight against COVID19 but vaccinating Indians will remain the governments topmost priority. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/india-new-delhi-indians-astrazeneca-b1923360.html 20th Sep 2021

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Sky News Children aged between 12 and 15 have started receiving their COVID19 vaccinations. Up to three million youngsters are eligible for coronavirus jabs across the UK. Quinn Foakes 15 was one of the first children in England to get the vaccine. Speaking after receiving his jab at Belfairs Academy secondary school in LeighonSea Essex he said I was pretty nervous at first but once Id got it done it was all good and Im glad that Ive done it. His mother Janine Lilleker a teacher at the school said Their education has been hindered since COVID and by getting their vaccination done its a way of them protecting themselves and also protecting the wider community of the school. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-reaches-12-to-15-year-olds-12412881 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters Doctors in Thailand have been given the goahead to start giving COVID19 booster shots under the skin rather than injecting them into muscles officials said in an effort to strengthen immunity and stretch vaccine supplies. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the method which doctors began exploring last month could be used at the discretion of medical professionals providing it was supported by evidence. Chalermpong Sukonthaphon director of the Vachira Hospital in Phuket said his hospital had been given the green light to use the technique from Friday as trials had showed it triggered a similar immune response to the regular method. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-try-alternative-covid-19-vaccination-method-stretch-supplies-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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ABC.Net.au The ACT has recorded seven new locally acquired cases of COVID19. At least four of those cases spent some time infectious in the community. However all seven cases are able to be linked to other known cases with six of those being household contacts. Five people are in hospital with the virus two in intensive care. There are currently 223 active COVID19 cases in the territory. Mr Barr said the territory would today hit an 80 per cent singledose vaccination rate for Canberrans aged 12 and above as appointments for Pfizer opened up to more 1215yearolds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/act-records-new-cases-of-covid-19/100475960 20th Sep 2021

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Sky News More than a million people in England will receive an invitation to book their COVID19 booster jab. Texts will be sent out on Monday while letters will be posted to those who are eligible for a third coronavirus vaccine dose later in the week NHS England said. Around 1.5 million people will be contacted and encouraged to use the National Booking Service. Those eligible for booster jabs include those aged 50 and over people living and working in care homes for the elderly and frontline health and social care workers. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-booster-jab-invitations-to-be-sent-out-across-england-this-week-12411320 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters Australias New South Wales NSW state on Monday reported its lowest rise in daily COVID19 cases in more than three weeks as some lockdown restrictions were eased in Sydney the state capital amid higher vaccination levels. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 935 new cases had been detected in the state the lowest daily tally since Aug. 27 and down from 1083 on Sunday. The state reported four more deaths. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/covid-19-cases-jump-australias-victoria-curbs-ease-sydney-hotspots-2021-09-19/ 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters New Zealand eased coronavirus curbs slightly on Monday in its largest city of Auckland as the government expressed confidence that there was no widespread regional transmission of the Delta variant. But tough restrictions will continue even after midnight on Tuesday when the alert level drops to 3 from 4 in the city of about 1.7 million at the centre of the latest Delta outbreak. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealands-auckland-covid-19-restrictions-eased-slightly-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters Vietnams capital Hanoi will further ease its coronavirus restrictions from this week the government said with new cases on the decline and the majority of its adult population partially vaccinated. Most construction projects can resume from Wednesday authorities said late on Sunday adding further easing would follow with average new daily cases down to just 20. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/vietnam-capital-hanoi-ease-coronavirus-curbs-this-week-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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CBC.ca Premier Doug Ford has given MPPs in his Progressive Conservative government until Thursday afternoon to get a shot of COVID19 vaccine or face ejection from caucus. In a letter to MPPs obtained by RadioCanada chief government whip Lorne Coe said that it is up to the PC caucus to show leadership and ensure every eligible Ontarian who can receives a vaccine. RadioCanada has not confirmed how many members of caucus received the letter. Coe goes on to say that there is a deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday to provide either proof of vaccination against the virus or a medical exemption from a doctor or registered nurse https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-pc-caucus-covid-vaccines-mandatory-ford-1.6144504 18th Sep 2021

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Reuters Australian authorities shut down construction sites in Melbourne for two weeks from Tuesday after an antivaccine mandate protest in the city turned violent and COVID19 infections in the state of Victoria surged. Hundreds of people clashed with union officials with bottles and a crate thrown at them footage on social media showed after the Victorian government required all construction workers to have at least one vaccine dose by Friday. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/melbourne-construction-sites-shut-down-after-anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-2021-09-20/ 21st Sep 2021

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The Wall Street Journal As a European Union member state Bulgaria has access to Westernapproved Covid19 vaccines and enough doses for its population. But a mix of misinformation low trust in authorities and conflicting messaging means less than a fifth of Bulgarians are fully vaccinated. With few takers at home and some shots soon expiring the government recently donated 172500 doses to the Kingdom of Bhutan nearly 4000 miles away. Some expired shots are being thrown away. Bulgaria a country of some seven million people has fully vaccinated far less of its population than the EU average of 61 and the U.S. rate of 54 according to Our World in Data a project based at Oxford University. It has emerged as an extreme case study of the challenge to convince vaccine holdouts to get the shot. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-falters-in-bulgaria-amid-perfect-storm-of-mistrust-fake-news-11632133548 20th Sep 2021

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The Washington Post Compulsory coronavirus vaccination has been a specter hovering over vaccine skeptics throughout the pandemic but the issue is coming to a head after President Biden announced federal mandates affecting up to 100 million Americans and such enormous institutions as the Los Angeles Unified School District mandated vaccinations too. Opponents of vaccination mandates are ready to fight and are aiming to use religious philosophical and personalbelief exemptions to abstain from required vaccinations. The history behind the process for gaining such an exemption suggests that those seeking religious exemptions to the coronavirus vaccination mandates will not be widely successful. In recent years many states including California Connecticut New York Maine and Vermont rolled back personalbelief exemptions from mandatory vaccination making it nearly impossible to claim that individual convictions prevent you from being vaccinated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/20/doubters-push-religious-exemptions-coronavirus-vaccination-may-not-work/ 20th Sep 2021

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The Washington Post The United Nations is demanding world leaders arriving in New York for its General Assembly adhere to an honor system to attest they are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. But that mandate will be tested in the general debates very first moments. Jair Bolsonaro who contracted the virus last year and as recently as last week said publicly that he does not need to be vaccinated because he has naturally acquired antibodies is scheduled to kick off the 76th U.N. General Assemblys general debate on Tuesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/19/jair-bolsonaro-unga-vaccine-honor-system/ 20th Sep 2021

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Daily Mail Melbourne construction workers protested outside CFMEU office on Monday Workers wearing hivis hurled verbal abuse at union officials in front of building One demonstrator hurled a plastic bread crate as tensions continued to escalate https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10007743/Covid-19-Australia-Melbourne-construction-workers-protest-mandatory-jabs.html 20th Sep 2021

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BBC News Misinformation is creating a real dilemma for young people considering whether they should take the Covid19 vaccine Northern Irelands mental health champion has said. Prof Siobhn ONeill said it had left young people questioning whether the vaccine is safe. There should not be that level of uncertainty she added. She said trust needed to be put in the experts and the scientists who are making the decisions. We have to look to the scientific consensus and the public health leaders and the doctors and the main organisations she said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58616080 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters U.S. regulators could authorize a booster shot of the Pfizer IncBioNTech SE COVID19 vaccine for older and some highrisk Americans early this week in time for the government to roll them out by Friday. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to give the nod to the third shots for at least this group before advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are due to meet on Wednesday. The CDC panel will discuss more precise recommendations for how to administer the shots. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/regulators-expected-ok-pfizer-boosters-older-americans-this-week-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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The Wall Street Journal The companies said the Covid19 vaccine generated levels of antibodies that were similar to those of younger adults. Pfizer will seek emergency use authorization in the U.S. as early as the end of the month. https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-biontech-say-covid-19-vaccine-is-safe-for-young-children-generates-immune-response-11632134701 20th Sep 2021

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Bloomberg The U.S. death toll from the Covid19 pandemic surpassed the number of fatalities in the 1918 influenza pandemic a milestone many experts say was avoidable after the arrival of vaccines. The White House announced the most sweeping change to U.S. travel policies in months widening the gap in rules between vaccinated people who will see curbs relaxed and the unvaccinated. Ther regulations will replace existing bans on foreigners travel to the U.S. from certain regions including Europe. Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE said their vaccine was safe and produced strong antibody responses in younger children in a largescale trial. The shot may be available by the end of next month Anthony Fauci said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-20/fauci-says-children-could-get-shots-by-halloween-virus-update 20th Sep 2021

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Bloomberg Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE said their Covid19 vaccine was safe and produced strong antibody responses in children ages 5 to 11 in a largescale trial findings that could pave the way to begin vaccinating gradeschool kids within months. The longawaited results offer one of the first looks at how well a Covid vaccine could work for younger children. Pressure to immunize kids has been on the climb in the U.S. where a new school year has started just as the delta variant is fueling a surge in cases. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-20/pfizer-covid-shot-safely-bolsters-antibodies-in-younger-kids 20th Sep 2021

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The Times of Israel Nearly two years after the emergence of the COVID19 pandemic Israel may soon finally see its own homegrown vaccine become commercially available. The jab will be a very late newcomer lagging behind the first wave of COVID vaccines by almost a year but its backers believe that it will find its rightful place in the global vaccine market and may even prove in the long run to be more effective than existing jabs against coronavirus variants. These beliefs were offered this month by Dr. Jonathan Javitt chairman of NRx Pharmaceuticals the AmericanIsraeli clinicalstage pharmaceutical company tapped two months ago by the Israeli Defense Ministry to manufacture and market the countrys vaccine developed by the governmentrun Israel Institute for Biological Research IIBR in Ness Ziona. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lagging-way-behind-israeli-covid-19-jab-hopes-to-find-its-place-in-market/ 20th Sep 2021

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Sky News A PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine trial for children aged between five and 11 has produced positive results and has shown a robust immune response the two firms have said. They said the results are the first to emerge from any vaccine trial for children aged below 12 and would provide a strong foundation for seeking the authorisation of its potential rollout across the world. Pfizer and BioNTech said the data will be submitted to health regulatory bodies and that they believe the trial provides a great opportunity to prevent COVID19 in younger age groups. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-trial-for-children-aged-under-12-shows-robust-immune-response-12412838 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in freezers at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge IPC in Phnom Penh. Tests done on them last year revealed a close relative to the coronavirus that has killed more than 4.6 million people worldwide. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cambodia-bat-researchers-mission-track-origin-covid-19-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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Pharmafield Thousands of vulnerable NHS patients in hospital due to COVID19 are set to benefit from a groundbreaking new antibody treatment Ronapreve. The drug is the first neutralising antibody medicine specifically designed to treat COVID19 to be authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRA for use in the UK. Ronapreve a combination of two monoclonal antibodies will be targeted initially at those in hospital who have not mounted an antibody response against COVID19. This includes people who are immunocompromised for example those with certain cancers or autoimmune diseases and therefore have difficulty building up an antibody response to the virus either through being exposed to COVID19 or from vaccination. https://pharmafield.co.uk/pharma_news/covid-19-antibody-drug-ronapreve-rolled-out-to-vulnerable-patients/ 20th Sep 2021

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Reuters Data needed to determine the advisability of booster shots of the Moderna Inc and Johnson Johnson COVID19 vaccines is just weeks away President Joe Bidens chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday. Health officials signaled they expected boosters would ultimately be recommended for a broad swath of the population but urged Americans not to seek booster doses until they have FDA approval. We recommend that people wait until you get to the point where you fall into the category where its recommended he told CNN. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/key-data-us-jj-moderna-covid-19-boosters-weeks-away-fauci-says-2021-09-19/ 20th Sep 2021

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STAT News Were experiencing a new virus a newly emerged pathogen and were trying to fight it with new tools that we dont have a lot of experience with he said. And were dealing with unpredictable human behavior which is a very important factor as well and environmental factors that may influence the severity of Covid outbreaks and how well it transmits. Theres a lot of moving parts said Duchin who is also an infectious diseases professor at the University of Washington. Among them the questions of when Covid vaccines will be approved for use in children and what percentage of parents will agree to vaccinate their kids. While the crystal ball may be cloudy who can resist taking a peek Lets talk about some things we might face in the months ahead. https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/winter-is-coming-again-what-to-expect-from-covid-19-as-the-season-looms/ 20th Sep 2021

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The BMJ Antivirals are one of the most sought after yet missing tools to control SARSCOV2. Chris StokelWalker asks what was learnt from a similar search nearly 20 years ago Antiviral drugs are among the most researched tools for treating covid19. They either prevent a virus entering a host cell or prevent it from being able to replicate once it is inside. And yet over 18 months into the pandemic finding ones that are effective against SARSCoV2 has proved challenging. Remdesivir was an early frontrunnerand many governments were desperate enough to grant it emergency use approval despite limited evidence. Those early hopes were ultimately dashed when major studies notably the World Health Organizations Solidarity trial found it to be ineffective at preventing death although it did help patients already recovering do so marginally faster. Doctors in Japan have treated covid19 patients with favipiravir an influenza antiviral but the drug has previously been linked to birth defects https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2165 20th Sep 2021

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STAT News Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Monday that they would file for authorization of their Covid19 vaccine for use in children after clinical trial results showed encouraging antibody levels in volunteers and side effects similar to those in teens and young adults. The pediatric study in children ages 5 to 11 is the first to disclose results in young children. It used a lower dose of the vaccine than the one currently being administered because earlier studies showed that the adult dose could cause more side effects. Adults receive two 30 microgram doses of the vaccine three weeks apart. In schoolaged children this was lowered to 10 micrograms. https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-children/ 20th Sep 2021

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The Guardian But as with so many other simple pleasures in the age of Covid19 nothing is that simple for Brown. The 47yearold Missouri resident takes immunosuppressant medication for lupus. Consequently her body has mounted virtually no antibody response to the coronavirus vaccine leaving her in persistent peril. Brown is among the estimated 3 of American adults who have immunosuppression including transplant recipients and people with cancer and autoimmune disorders such as lupus. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/covid-prep-antibody-injections-immunosuppressed-vaccines 19th Sep 2021

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Reuters Indonesia on Monday reported 1932 new daily coronavirus infections the lowest since August 2020 data from countrys COVID19 task force showed and the government further eased restrictions in Java and on its resort island Bali. Indonesia once Asias coronavirus epicentre has reported nearly 4.2 million infections overall and over 140000 deaths but new cases have dropped 98 from their peak in July senior cabinet minister Luhut Pandjaitan said. Its average positivity rate the percentage of tests that are positive was just below 4 this month under the World Health Organizations 5 threshold for determining whether an outbreak is under control. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-reports-least-daily-covid-19-cases-over-year-2021-09-20/ 20th Sep 2021

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ABC News Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned COVID19 cases will go through the roof once the state opens up next month after NSW recorded 935 new infections. It is the first time new case numbers have dropped below 1000 since August 27. Four more people died during the reporting period bringing the total number of fatalities in NSW to 301 since the start of the pandemic. On Monday evening a positive case in northern NSW was confirmed. The person who was not a local travelled to the area from Sydney on September 18. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/nsw-records-935-covid-19-infections-and-four-deaths/100475524 20th Sep 2021

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CNN The magnitude of Covid19 patients filling hospital beds is avoidable doctors say. But in some hospitals patients with or without coronavirus are paying the price. We are at the point where not every patient in need will get the care we might wish we could give said Dr. Shelly Harkins chief medical officer of St. Peters Health in Helena Montana. Its one of the latest hospitals to resort to crisis standards of care meaning emergency medicine personnel must ration care. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html 20th Sep 2021

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Daily Mail There were some 235 cases per 100000 personweeks among white people during third Covid wave. Meanwhile the figure was as low as 98 in other ethnic groups suggesting white people drove cases up. And cases were higher among officebased jobs during Office for National Statistics data shows https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10008619/End-working-home-fuelled-Englands-Covid-wave.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK 20th Sep 2021

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The Mirror Coronavirus cases have shot up by 17 in just a week following a week of steadying infection levels. Today a further 36100 cases and 49 deaths were suffered in the UK government data shows. In comparison last Monday 30825 new infections and 61 new deaths were clocked. In the past few days the increase of daily cases had been slowing significantly despite the recent return to school and easing of restrictions. On August 18 a month and two days ago there were 111 new Covid deaths recorded making Saturdays rise of 30144 new Covid cases and more 164 more an increase of 47. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-covid-cases-surge-nearly-25028905?utm_source=twitter.com&amputm_medium=social&amputm_campaign=sharebar 20th Sep 2021