Vaccinating children is crucial to building up population levels of immunity and curtailing the spread of the coronavirus. Though children spread the virus less efficiently…
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South Carolina Lawmakers Vote to Add Firing Squad to Executions List
South Carolina is among 24 states where the death penalty remains law. In the past 16 years, 11 states have rescinded capital punishment, Mr. Dunham…
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Baltimore Vaccine Plant’s Troubles Ripple Across 3 Continents
WASHINGTON — Quality-control problems at a Baltimore plant manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines have led health officials on three continents to pause the distribution of millions of…
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Biden Backs Suspending Patents on Covid Vaccines
Global health activists, who have been pressing for the waiver, praised the administration’s decision. It is “a truly historic step, which shows that President Biden…
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Pfizer Reaps Hundreds of Millions in Profits From Covid Vaccine
The pricing for the United States was in line with the cost of seasonal flu vaccines and much less expensive than vaccines for conditions like…
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FDA Set to Authorize Pfizer Vaccine for Adolescents by Early Next Week
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in adolescents 12 to 15 years old by…
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Biden Confronts Coronavirus Vaccine Patents
WASHINGTON — President Biden, faced with surging Covid-19 crises in India and South America, is under intensifying pressure from the international community and his party’s…
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Biden Can Help Make Covid-Vaccine Tech Available to Poor Countries
Decades before the W.T.O. and Trips came into being, companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson enjoyed the protection of restrictive intellectual property rules. Via…
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Shake-Up at Covid Vaccine Manufacturer That Tossed Millions of Doses
The Baltimore plant is one of two federally designated sites that were supposed to be ready to manufacture vaccines or therapeutics in a public health…
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How Europe Sealed a Pfizer Vaccine Deal With Texts and Calls
BRUSSELS — It was February and things were going from bad to worse for the European Union’s vaccination campaign, and for its top executive, Ursula…
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