COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up

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Coronavirus: ¿cuándo una persona enferma de covid-19 deja de ser contagiosa (tenga o no síntomas)?

Coronavirus: ¿cuándo una persona enferma de covid-19 deja de ser contagiosa (tenga o no síntomas)?

www.lanacion.com.ar

17 November 2020
Coronavirus: when does a person sick with covid-19 stop being contagious (have symptoms or not)?....

 

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Covid: Oxford vaccine shows 'encouraging' immune response in older adults

The phase two trial results raise hopes the jab can protect age groups most at risk from Covid-19.

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Ginés González García se reunió en secreto con el embajador ruso para ajustar el envío de la vacuna Sputnik V

Cómo es el proceso de aprobación ante el ANMAT y el ejército de traductores que trabaja contrarreloj en estricta confidencialidad

www.infobae.com

19 November 2020
...."We are slow in loading data due to all the complications that the process has," they acknowledge in the Argentine laboratory. When could the vaccine be applied in our country? Those same sources assure that the vaccine would only arrive at the end of the first quarter, far from the government's projections. In fact, it is not yet confirmed if the doses for our country will come from India, Turkey or North Korea....
....On November 6, when publicly announcing the agreement with the Russians, Alberto Fernández considered that "if everything goes well, by the end of December some 10 million people could be vaccinated" in Argentina. In the last hours, during an interview with Marco Enríquez-Ominami, he once again insisted on that date: "We want to try to vaccinate as many people as possible in January and February." However, official sources confirmed to this medium that an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has not yet been signed. Not even an advance was paid for the 25 million committed doses....

 

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'Probable' Argentina will face Covid-19 second wave in Autumn, warns expert

A government health advisor has warned it is “probable” that Argentina will be hit by a “second wave” of Covid-19 diagnoses next year.

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Promising interim results for Sinopharm's inactivated whole-virion SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to intensive scientific efforts to bring about an effective vaccine for global distribution. Many different vaccine design approaches are underway. A recent study published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases in October 2020 reports a potentially...

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Vaccine Unproven? No Problem in China, Where People Scramble for Shots (Published 2020)

Many say they are reassured because politicians and executives have been inoculated. But experts say the risks outweigh the benefits.

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In Brazil’s Halt of Chinese Vaccine Trial, Critics See Politics (Published 2020)

The government offered little explanation as to why it had stopped testing a promising coronavirus shot; an institute involved in the trial said a participant’s death was unrelated to the vaccine.

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Coronavirus roars back in Brazil as infections top six million

Last week, Brazil reported almost 68,000 new Covid-19 cases in a single day, an all-time high that eclipses the previous record by more than 20% and rivals the numbers seen in the United States, whose population is 50% bigger.

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Covid-19 vaccines: the five frontrunners

Government wants to vaccinate 11 million against Covid-19 next year, with five potential options.

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Vacunas, logística e infraestructura: cuántos millones le costará a la Argentina enfrentar el coronavirus en 2021

En el presupuesto se prevé una inversión de 171 millones de dólares solo en la vacunación. Pero el gasto en el Covid-19 sería de más del doble. Los detalles. - Caso Abigail | El gobierno provincial desmintió al papá de la nena

www.clarin.com

21 November 2020
Managing the pandemic...Vaccines, logistics and infrastructure: how many millions will it cost Argentina to face the coronavirus in 2021....
....In vaccines, about $300,500,000 dollars. Just over half of that money is in the 2021 Budget approved in Congress this week. It appears under the item “Actions to Mitigate the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic (Vaccines)”, with an amount of 13,697,573,617 pesos that will be executed by the Secretary of Access to Health, led by Carla Vizzotti....

 

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Sputnik V: afirman que la vacuna rusa contra el coronavirus será "mucho más barata" que las estadounidenses

Lo anticipó el presidente del Fondo Ruso de Inversiones Directas. Este martes se podría dar a conocer el precio. - Rusia anunció que su vacuna Sputnik V contra el coronavirus tiene una eficacia de más del 95%. - Dólar blue hoy: a cuánto cotiza este martes 24 de noviembre.

www.clarin.com

23 November 2020
Sputnik V: they claim that the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus will be "much cheaper" than the American ones
....The virtual event, which will be held via Zoom, will be this Tuesday at 7.30 in Argentina (1.30 pm Moscow time). According to Kirill Dmitriev, president of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments (FRID), which summoned the press and stressed that it will spread "great news."....

 

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Rusia anunció que su vacuna Sputnik V contra el coronavirus tiene una eficacia de más del 95%

Los resultados se lograron en un segundo estudio, 42 días después de la primera dosis. - Rusia anunció que la vacuna Sputnik V costará menos de 20 dólares.

www.clarin.com

24 November 2020
According to preliminary data from the second interim analysis of the phase 3 clinical trial on 39 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among its participants, the efficacy of the Russian vaccine after 28 days is 91.4%....