VOA Special English, Health Report, COVID-19 Vaccines Might Be Changed to Fight New Versions of Virus
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Israel's fast vaccination effort is providing important information about drug company Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) says it will team up with a German company to develop new vaccines to target variants of the new coronavirus.
The coronavirus health crisis has interfered with almost every part of daily human life—including what we eat.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Lucenia Dunn was careful. She urged people in her area to wear face masks and keep a safe distance from one another.
The head of Britain's vaccination deployment effort says the world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.
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A new study suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine cuts transmission of the virus by two-thirds and prevents severe disease. Oxford University released the results on Wednesday.
Russian scientists say the country's Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against COVID-19. The news will help sell the vaccine to other countries in the race against the pandemic.
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
American drugmaker Johnson & Johnson said Friday that its one-shot vaccine prevented COVID-19 in a large trial around the world. The vaccine, however, was less effective in South Africa where a worrisome variant is causing new infections.
Worldwide coronavirus cases passed 100 million Wednesday as countries struggle with new variants of the virus and a limited supply of vaccine.
The U.S. government has approved the first long-acting drug combination treatment for HIV, the virus responsible for the disease AIDS.
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed 10 executive orders Thursday as part of his plan to fight the coronavirus.
The fight against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Reports of mutations are appearing quickly.
Chinese officials urged people to avoid traveling home for the Lunar New Year observance to prevent spreading the coronavirus in rural areas.
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
A new study suggests that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is effective against new forms of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and South Africa.
South Korean demand for cosmetic surgery operations sharply increased in 2020.
A pharmacist in the American state of Wisconsin told police that he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine. In court documents released Monday, the man said he believed the vaccine would change people's DNA.