Covid In Kids: A Reason To Be Wary Of Covid Vaccines
More than a dozen Covid vaccines are in development, with many of them already being tested in humans and many more to begin human trials soon. But what do we actually know about these potential vaccines and why might we be wary …
Confronting Barriers To Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance
One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is when we will have a Covid-19 vaccine. To that I say, the question is not when, but if. If we don’t have a vaccine, we don’t yet know how safe and effective it …
It’s Too Early For The US Government To Place Risky, Billion Dollar Bets On Covid Vaccines
As American taxpayers, we are justified in asking why the United States government is giving a billion dollars to a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to develop a very early stage Covid-19 vaccine. Mind you, I am not particularly upset that AstraZeneca is …
What Happens If We Can’t Find A Coronavirus Vaccine That Works?
Last Friday, amidst all the heat, hype, and big bucks that greeted even the most modest advances in Covid-19 vaccine development in the United States, a far more sober assessment came from our friends across the pond: “Why We May Not Get a …
Will Memorial Day 2020 be remembered as the holiday when COVID-19 got the upper hand?
We may have the reason to remember Memorial Day 2020 as the holiday when COVID-19 exploded. Looking around the country over the weekend, there was little evidence that people were making the sacrifices needed to save their own lives and those of …
Early Study Of Covid-19 Vaccine Developed In China Sees Mixed Results
CanSino Biologic, a company based in Tianjin, China working with a clinical team in Wuhan, report the results of a phase 1 safety trial of an adenovirus vector based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. The virus vector expressed the entire spike protein, the S gene. Three groups …
NBC News Features William A. Haseltine on the Potential for a Covid-19 Vaccine
President Donald Trump is hitting the road again, this time heading to a Ford factory in the battleground state of Michigan. And as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world tops 5 million, a top U.S. scientist warns a vaccine …
The Guardian Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Preparing for the Second Covid-19 Wave
A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the fall. In …
Bloomberg Features William A. Haseltine on the Covid-19 Vaccine Race
The U.S. threw its weight behind one of the fastest-moving experimental solutions to the coronavirus pandemic, pledging as much as $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca Plc to help make the University of Oxford’s Covid vaccine. Beset by criticism of his response to the outbreak, President Donald Trump is …
The Guardian Features William A. Haseltine on Covid-19 Vaccines
A top US scientist has said that people should not count on a Covid-19 vaccine being developed any time soon, as global infections passed 5 million after surges in Latin America, including Brazil, which has recorded nearly 20,000 new cases. William Haseltine, the groundbreaking cancer, …