Celina Tebor and Ryan W. Miller, USA Today, Dec. 18, 2021 With a potential surge in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, the Biden administration on Friday pressed its new strategy to reduce the time unvaccinated children miss in school after …
Pfizer executives say COVID could become endemic by 2024
Hannah Miao, CNBC, Dec. 17, 2021 Covid will become an endemic disease as early as 2024, Pfizer executives said Friday, meaning the virus will transition from a global emergency to a constant presence causing regional outbreaks across the world — …
How effective are COVID-19 vaccines against omicron?
Melissa Hawkins, PBS News Hour, Dec. 16, 2021 The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing. And as time goes …
Pfizer says COVID-19 pill near 90% effective in final analysis
Staff Writer, CNBC, Dec. 14, 2021 KEY POINTS Pfizer on Tuesday said final analysis of its antiviral Covid-19 pill still showed near 90% efficacy in preventing hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk patients. Recent lab data suggests the drug retains its …
“I’d be a little bit reluctant to call it a surge” || The omicron variant is in TN as active COVID cases steadily increase
Vinay Simlot, WBIR, Dec. 13, 2021 Shelby County in West Tennessee reported two cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Saturday. The variant is considered a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization, and it’s only a …