Vaccines
Intellectual property cause of death, genocide
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Feb.10, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property (IP) provisions to enable much...
EU’s Covid-19 Vaccination Debacle: “Epochal Failure”
by Soeren Kern
February 13, 2021
The vaccination rollout has been plagued by bureaucratic sclerosis, poorly-negotiated contracts, penny-pinching and blame shifting — all wrapped in...
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
By Derek Lowe
2 February, 2021
In the last few days, the question of why more drug companies haven’t been enlisted for vaccine production...
Russophobia on the move
By Dr Tatjana Zdanoka*
On November 3 last year, the European Parliament adopted report “On the foreign policy consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak” (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2020-0204_EN.html) saying...
Facebook bans misinformation about all vaccines after years of controversy
Company will remove posts with false claims and groups with repeated violations will be shut down
By Kari Paul in San Francisco
Mon 8 Feb 2021
Facebook...
A triumph for Russia and its scientists
Borrell Hopes Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine Will Be Certified In European Union
EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrel, on February 5, expressed hopes that the...
Mexican Regulator Authorises Emergency Use of Russia’s Sputnik V Coronavirus Vaccine
Feb.3, 2021
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Mexico's Deputy Health Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has been authorised by the local regulator...
Irked by Vaccine Delays, Jamaica Turns to Cuba and China
By Jim Wyss
Jan.14, 2021
Jamaica is seeking Covid-19 vaccines from Cuba, China and India, after accusing rich nations of “hoarding” medicine.
Health Minister Christopher Tufton told...
Rolling authorisation application for COVID-19 vaccines Swissmedic requests additional data
Swissmedic examines the data on the vaccine from AstraZeneca it receives on an ongoing basis
03.02.2021
Swissmedic is currently reviewing two applications for the authorisation of...
COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Ask the SEC to Help Keep the Secret...
By Julia Rock
2/1/21
When the U.S. government awarded over $10 billion in contracts and advance- purchase commitments to drug companies working on COVID-19...