 | | | | Robert Day walked up to a house in northwest Detroit, eager to talk about nearby COVID-19 vaccination sites and pitch a local program that pays $50 to anyone who brings someone to a clinic to get inoculated. | | | | | | Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) said on Wednesday early human trial data shows that a third dose of either its current COVID-19 shot or an experimental new vaccine candidate increases immunity against variants of COVID-19 first found in Brazil and South Africa. | | | | | | Guatemala on Wednesday took delivery of its first consignment of Russian Sputnik V vaccines, with 50,000 doses arriving despite Guatemalan concerns Russia could cancel the deal after the confidential vaccine contract was leaked. | | | | | | With COVID-19 vaccine demand declining in the United States, some Canadians facing third-wave lockdowns are flying south to get inoculated, perhaps months earlier than they would be able to at home. | | | | | | Negotiations at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines will take time given the consensus-based nature of the institution and the complexity of the issue, a Biden administration official said on Wednesday. | | | | | | President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind a proposed World Trade Organization waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries. | | | | | | Peru President Francisco Sagasti announced on Wednesday a fresh deal with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) to purchase an additional 12 million doses of their vaccine against COVID-19 as a fierce second wave of the virus ravages the country. | | | | | | The world cannot act soon enough to put idle manufacturing capacity to work making COVID-19 vaccines to help redress a massive imbalance in global supply, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday. | | | | | | The United Nations Children's Fund said Wednesday 50 freezer kits had arrived in Venezuela to boost the OPEC nation's capacity to store coronavirus vaccines. | | | | | | The United States has administered 249,566,820 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 321,549,335 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. | | | | | |
