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Trump knew testing Covid-19 vaccines would take months, Woodward book shows

Trump also suggests that’s why he initially pushed so hard for the use of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, because the malaria drug had already been tested and approved for other uses. “Well, we’re doing great on vaccines,” Woodward quotes Trump as saying in his latest book, “Rage.” “The problem with a vaccine is a vaccine… Read More »

People are getting reinfected with COVID-19. What that means for ‘herd immunity’ and vaccines

Article content continued “It very well might be very rare. But it very well might not be as rare as we think. We just need a better surveillance system for it.” From a public health perspective, “People who have had COVID-19 should behave and be treated as if they had not had the virus,” Pandori… Read More »

Good news and bad news on COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccine candidates in the United States and Russia have shown promise this week, but polling shows most people are hesitant to get immunized. On Friday, the team of Russian scientists behind a vaccine touted by President Vladimir Putin as a “very important step for our country, and generally, for the whole world” published the first… Read More »