Top news of the week: 08.03.2022.
Coronavirus
Novavax’s Covid-19 Vaccine Moves Closer to FDA Authorization Decision
The company says it has resolved the manufacturing problems that led to earlier delays, and the FDA is reviewing the shot’s authorization application.
Covid-19 Hospitalizations Are Down, but Nurse Shortages Stretch Hospitals
The Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has about 1,200 nurse openings, more than three times as many as a year ago.
How the Covid-19 Test Was Won
With an eye-catching card on a lollipop-like stick, Abbott Laboratories dominated the market for at-home Covid-19 diagnosis. Now it is trying to predict the future course of the virus.
Global Covid-19 deaths surpass 6 million
The global Covid-19 death toll surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
UK scales back routine covid-19 surveillance
A walk in the dark On 24 February 2022, the UK government removed the legal requirement for people in England to self-isolate after a positive covid-19 test result, with the other UK ...
More evidence that covid-19 started in a market, not a laboratory
Two new papers make the case robustly
Covid-19: Nisra records 33 deaths in past week in Northern Ireland
The virus was mentioned on the death certificates of 33 people in the week up to 25 February, Nisra says.
Covid 19: Anti-viral drug study open to patients in NI
The drug being used has already been shown to reduce the risk of serious illness and death.