Safe to receive Covid and flu jabs at the same time, study shows
Scientists behind the Combining Influenza and Covid-19 Vaccination (ComFluCov) study said their findings support government plans to …
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Scientists discover gene that can help shape immune response to Covid virus
Scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research have pinpointed a particular protein …
AstraZeneca picks up new vaccine technology originally intended to target Covid
The vaccine platform works by delivering genetic material called self-amplifying RNA to human cells, which are then …
Oxford vaccine chief struggling to raise funding for non-Covid jabs
Despite leading the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been rolled out across the …
WHO holds crucial meetings to decide influenza strains for jab
Experts from the WHO will analyse different samples of influenza that are currently circulating in different global …
Covid Breast milk of vaccinated mothers contains antibodies
University of Florida researchers said their findings could have a positive influence on vaccination rates …
Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines quicker than AstraZeneca
There appears to be little change in the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine three months …
G7 nations will have stockpiled a billion spare Covid vaccine doses by end of 2021
Yet analysis from science analytics company Airfinity suggests that, by the end of the year, …
No evidence that Covid vaccines increase risk of miscarriage
Similarly, there is “no pattern from the reports to suggest that any of the Covid-19 …
Covid to ‘rip’ through schools unless safety measures brought in immediately, ministers warned
Germany is spending €200m on mobile air filters for schools, while some 100,000 air purifiers have …
Sniffer dogs trained on smelly socks can detect Covid with up to 94% accuracy
The six dogs in the study were trained over several weeks by being introduced to …
Scientists detect new coronavirus in pneumonia patients in Malaysia that has ‘likely made jump from animals’
They say the findings, published on Thursday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, highlight the public …
Covid case rates have increased ‘slightly’ across most English regions
But with large pockets of the population still unprotected, a rise in cases is to …
Scientists urge government to roll out ‘surge’ vaccinations in bid to curb spread of Indian variant
There is confidence among experts that the current generation of vaccines will be able to …
How Covid-19 has disrupted efforts to care for blood cancer patients
Despite the hot weather on that day back in July 2015, his hospital room windows …