- Australia Vaccine Rollout Brought Forward to Early March
Australia will roll out one of its COVID-19 vaccines earlier than expected, after the Pfizer/BioNTech inoculation looks set to be granted early approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The federal government had previously quoted the end of March as their expected roll-out date depending on the therapeutic approval. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said […]
- ‘Dissonance’ Confronts Fed, With Vaccine Weighed Against Joblessness
WASHINGTON—In about two weeks, at least 9 million jobless U.S. residents are at risk of losing the unemployment benefits that have helped sustain them through the pandemic. Delayed rent, estimated at $70 billion spread among perhaps 11 million families, will start coming due. It seems a gaping wound, and yet as of September U.S. families […]
- AstraZeneca Resumes COVID-19 Vaccine Trial in US
AstraZeneca has resumed the U.S. trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine after approval by regulators, and Johnson & Johnson is preparing to resume its trial on Monday or Tuesday, the companies said on Friday. AstraZeneca, one of the leading vaccine developers, paused its U.S. trial on Sept. 6 after a report of a serious neurological […]
- Australia to Trial ‘Tunable’ CCP Virus Vaccine For Mutating Strains
The University of Melbourne will get over $1.5 million to accelerate trials of two next-generation “targeted and tunable” COVID-19 vaccine. It comes as SARS-COV-2 mutations spread worldwide posing questions about the effectiveness of existing vaccines. Announcing the funding on Dec. 3, Minister for Health Greg Hunt said: “These vaccines offer a number of potential advantages […]
- Health Minister Hunt Says Australia Patiently Awaits ‘Safety Assessment’ as UK Fast-tracks Pfizer CCP Virus Vaccine
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has said that Australia will not rush plans to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine after the United Kingdom fast-tracked an emergency approval of Pfizer’s mRNA jab. “Our advice remains that the timeline for a decision on approval is expected by the end of January 2021, and our planning is for […]
- Scott Morrison Announces ‘Letter of Intent’ With AstraZeneca For CCP Virus Vaccine
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced an agreement with British pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca, enabling Australia to produce a COVID-19 vaccine—if advanced human trials are successful. Speaking at AstraZeneca’s North Ryde facility in Sydney on Aug. 19, alongside federal Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, and AstraZeneca country president Liz Chatwin Morrison declared, the government had “signed a letter of […]
- CDC Issues New Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccinations for People With Underlying Medical Conditions
People with underlying medical conditions are able to receive the COVID-19 vaccination as long as they have not had a severe allergic reaction to any of the ingredients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The CDC issued new guidance on Saturday aimed at helping adults with underlying health conditions or weakened immune systems […]
- Overseas Travel in 2021 ‘May be Challenging’ Says Australia’s Tourism Minister
Federal Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham says it’s not impossible that international travel could be back on the cards next year, but to do it in the first half of 2021 would be challenging. Such travel will depend on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. “Then of course the manufacturing rollout, distribution, uptake, all the other factors […]
- Should Healthy Adults Be Injected With the CCP Virus to Expedite a Vaccine?
In a race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, some medical professionals and politicians are advocating the use of a controversial method called human challenge studies (HCS), where healthy volunteers are injected with a candidate vaccine or a placebo followed by an attenuated CCP virus. Proponents of the HCS argue that more lives will be […]
- Over One Million COVID-19 Vaccinations Administered
More than 1 million people in the United States have received the COVID-19 vaccine up until Wednesday, according to Robert Redfield, Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The United States achieved an early but important milestone today—jurisdictions have now reported that more than 1 million people have received their first dose of […]
- Rep. Fred Keller on the Election, COVID19 Vaccine, Pennsylvania’s In-Home Mask Mandate
In this episode, we sit down with Pennsylvania Congressman Fred Keller to discuss the election, COVID-19 vaccine developments, and Pennsylvania’s newly expanded mask mandate which requires people wear masks inside their homes under certain conditions. This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek. American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on […]
