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COVID-19 variants

Is COVID-19 herd immunity elusive or within reach?

February 24, 2021 By Brian Buntz Leave a Comment

Last year, herd immunity seemed like a comforting promise as researchers worked on dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates and a silver-lining to the rampant spread of the virus — the more people who got infected, the more natural immunity that would develop over time. There are now dissenting opinions about how the term relates to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Diabetes Tagged With: COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 variants

FDA issues guidelines to address COVID-19 variants

February 22, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

The FDA today issued guidance for medical product developers to address the emergence of variants of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Variants of the virus have been detected in multiple countries across the globe, including the U.S., and they pose a major threat to potentially ending the COVID-19 pandemic as protocols such as mask-wearing and hand-washing […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: BioNTech, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 variants, FDA, Moderna, Pfizer

Feds to spend $1.6B to expand COVID testing, domestic manufacturing

February 17, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

The Biden administration announced plans today to expand COVID-19 testing across the country, boost domestic manufacturing of tests and testing supplies and increase virus genome sequencing to detect virus variants. The departments of Health and Human Services and Defense will jointly invest $650 million to expand testing for K-8 schools and underserved congregate settings, such […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Lab Instruments & Supplies Tagged With: AdvaMed, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 variants, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Defense

4 ways COVID-19 variants could change the battle against the pandemic

January 29, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Highly-transmissible COVID-19 variants have likely been circulating undetected for months in places like the U.K., South Africa and Brazil. They then seemed to burst onto the scene, fueling large outbreaks that dwarfed preceding ones. While the variants aren’t well understood, they suggest that SARS-CoV-2 is mutating in ways that confer an evolutionary advantage. They thus […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 variants

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