Why Nigeria Can’t Access Malaria Vaccine —UNICEF
Agency Report/ The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has stated that Nigeria needs to spend the next two to three years…
AstraZeneca Seeks Emergency Authorisation for COVID Antibody Treatment
Danica Kirka and Matthew Perrone (AP)/ AstraZeneca, the drugmaker that developed one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, has asked the…
What Happens 6 Months after Taking Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine
Reuters/ The effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in preventing infection by the coronavirus dropped to 47% from 88% six months…
US Drug Maker Produces First Covid-19 Antiviral Pill
Femi Ashekun/ US pharmaceutical company, Merck, is seeking emergency authorisation for first of its kind Covid-19 antiviral drug after “remarkable”…
Why Covid-19 Shots Don’t Last
WSJ/ Why don’t Covid-19 vaccinations last longer?Measles shots are good for life, chickenpox immunizations protect for 10 to 20 years,…
FDA Rejects Covid-19 Booster Shot for Americans, Cites Rare Cases of Heart Problems
Ololade Adeyanju/ Scientific advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have voted overwhelmingly against Pfizer’s application to offer…
What Africa’s Top Fact-checkers are Doing to Combat False Beliefs about Covid-19
Sarah Scire (NiemanLab)/ Is there something WEIRD about fact-checking? Much of the research about combating misinformation with fact-checking comes from…
640 Fully Vaccinated People Die of Covid-19 in England in 7 Months
Femi Ashekun/ People who were fully vaccinated accounted for 1.2% of all deaths involving Covid-19 in England in the first…
US Intelligence Concludes Covid-19 not a Biological Weapon … Remains Uncertain about Virus Origin
Femi Ashekun/ US intelligence agencies have ruled out the theory that China developed Covid-19 as a biological weapon, and that…
Nigerian Centre for Disease Control Gets New Director-General
Pat Stevens/ President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new director-general for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Buhari also…