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04 dezembro 2020

WHO considers e-vaccination certificates to ease travel

Coronavirus: WHO considers e-vaccination certificates to ease travel:

  • The WHO recommended that countries do not begin issuing immunity passports
  • A number of governments have suggested they are a route back to normality 
  • British experts warned issuing immunity passports would lead to inequality
  • WHO: Rich nations will lose hundreds of billions if vaccine isn't issued equally


Regulatory approval of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 - UK

Regulatory approval of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19: Information for healthcare professionals and the public about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
 
Information for Healthcare Professionals on Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
 
 
 
 
Details: Find out more about the approval from our press release.
 
Ingredients

The Medicines and Healthcare products Agency can confirm that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine does not contain any components of animal origin.

A full list of ingredients for the qualitative and quantitative composition of the vaccine can be found at point 2 in the Information for Healthcare Professionals on Pfizer/BioNtech Vaccine.

A full list of ingredients for the excipient composition of the vaccine can be found at point 6 in the Information for Healthcare Professionals on Pfizer/BioNtech Vaccine.

A full list of ingredients for the qualitative and quantitative composition of the vaccine and a full list of the excipient composition of the vaccine can be found at point 6 in the Information for Recipients of the Pfizer/BioNtech Vaccine.

How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines

How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines - STAT:

Athletes, politicians, and other wealthy or well-connected people have managed to get special treatment throughout the pandemic, including preferential access to testing and unapproved therapies. Early access to coronavirus vaccines is likely to be no different, medical experts and ethicists told STAT. It could happen in any number of ways, they said: fudging the definition of “essential workers” or “high-risk” conditions, lobbying by influential industries, physicians caving to pressure to keep their patients happy, and even through outright bribery or theft.

The worst attempts to nefariously procure a vaccine may come a few months into distribution, once vaccines are available that don’t require ultra-cold storage and local pharmacies and physician practices get allotments.

How EU money is spent for Covid19 drugs

Behind The Pledge - How EU money is spent for Covid19 drugs: How did we come to pay gold for a drug whose effectiveness has not been proven? This is the story of Remdesivir, a drug developed by the American company Gilead Sciences with large public funds to combat Ebola, and in July approved by the European Medicines Agency with "conditional authorisation" as the first antiviral against Covid 19.

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COVID-19 situation update for the EU/EEA and the UK, as of 4 December 2020

COVID-19 situation update for the EU/EEA and the UK: As of 04 December 2020, 13 680 014 cases have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Portugal (307 618). As of 04 December 2020, 339 409 deaths have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Portugal (4 724)

What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 4 December

COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 4 December: Top stories: UK deaths pass 60,000; Biden to ask Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days; South Korea considers new restrictions.