Pfizer, Moderna seen reaping billions from Covid-19 vaccine booster
Drugmakers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech and Moderna Inc are expected to reap billions of dollars from Covid-19 booster shots in a market that could rival the $6 billion in annual sales…
Supply chains, inflation overshadow vaccine, debt woes at IMF-World Bank meetings
Supply chain woes and growing inflation concerns pushed aside a widening gap in COVID-19 vaccinations and mounting debt problems for developing countries as the top concerns for global policymakers at…
Mandatory vaccines
The emergence of the latest Covid-19 variant of concern, Omicron, further ramped up the pressures on governments to make decisive interventions before their health systems are overwhelmed. With its unusually…
Vaccine apartheid
China is all set to give one billion vaccine doses to African countries as part of its large-scale cooperation with the African continent. Given that the new Covid-19 variant ‘Omicron’…
Vaccine patents
THE intellectual property protection regime is often seen as the villain in an otherwise picture-perfect society where all important inventions are available to everyone equally without paying any premium. But…
Inequality in vaccine access
JUST as the world appeared to be limping back to life from the devastating effects of Covid-19 and its myriad strains, a new, perhaps more deadly, variant has thrown nations…
Needle-free vaccine patches coming soon, say researchers
Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the Covid pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a…
WHO-backed vaccine hub for Africa to copy Moderna shot
Efforts to develop an African base for COVID-19 vaccine production will focus on trying to replicate Moderna’s shot, but a lack of progress in talks with the US company mean…
Biden’s vaccine mandate signals a White House done with persuasion
President Joe Biden and his aides have concluded something in recent weeks: The Mr. Nice Guy approach isn’t working. By introducing vast new vaccine mandates he once opposed, Biden is…
How vaccines became ammunition in global diplomacy
Covid-19 vaccines are not just coveted as protection from the deadly virus, they are also a currency in the battle for global influence, experts say, especially between China and Russia.…
