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Goats and Soda
Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the Europ

Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

Jun 30, 2021
Europe lists four approved vaccines for travelers. There's an omission that makes Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor feel invisible — and disappointed.
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Coronavirus Updates
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending allowing people to mix COVID-19 vaccine doses. Here, people walk past a vaccination clinic this week in Toronto.

Want To Mix 2 Different COVID-19 Vaccines? Canada Is Fine With That

Jun 04, 2021
As of late May, 50.6% of Canada's population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated.
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Goats and Soda
From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose

AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'

Jun 01, 2021
Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.
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Coronavirus Updates
Danish health authorities announced Wednesday that the country will continue its COVID-19 vaccine rollout without the shot made by AstraZeneca, citing its possible link to rare blood clotting events, the availability of other vaccines and the "fact that

Denmark Drops AstraZeneca Vaccine, Citing Rare Side Effects, Epidemic 'Under Control'

Apr 14, 2021
The Danish Health Authority said it will continue its vaccination campaign without the shot made by AstraZeneca, but said its benefits outweigh the risks for those who do get it.
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Goats and Soda
A scientist works on COVID-19 samples to find variations of the virus at the Croix-Rousse Hospital laboratory in Lyon, France, in January.

Can Vaccines Stop Variants? Here's What We Know So Far

Apr 09, 2021
One of the hottest areas of research right now: studies to determine how well current vaccines work against emerging coronavirus "variants of concern."
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Coronavirus Updates
The European Union's drug regulator on Wednesday announced its findings into the possible connection between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clots.

EU Regulator: AstraZeneca Vaccine Effective; Blood Clots May Be A Rare Side Effect

Apr 07, 2021
The European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that blood clots should be listed as a possible but rare side effect of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, stressing the shot's benefits outweigh the risks.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Vials of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego in December. Mexicans have gone to California, Florida and other states seeking vaccines as their country has struggled to roll them out.

Some Mexicans Travel To U.S. For COVID Vaccines As Their Country's Rollout Stumbles

Mar 26, 2021
Some Mexicans with family ties or dual citizenship in the U.S., or who can afford the airfare, head north of the border to get vaccinated faster than the months of waiting for one back home.
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Coronavirus Updates
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder (right) and Berlin's Mayor Michael Mueller, participate in a news conference following talks via videoconference with Germany's state premiers on the extension of the current COV

'Basically In A New Pandemic,' Says Merkel, As Germany Extends Lockdown

Mar 23, 2021
The German chancellor announces an intensified coronavirus lockdown going into Easter, warning that new mutations raise the specter of a potentially deadly "third wave" of COVID-19.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said concerns were raised with the information released by AstraZeneca on initial clinical trial data.

AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data Questioned By Safety Board

Mar 23, 2021
In an unusual post-midnight statement, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said AstraZeneca might have used old data for its COVID-19 vaccine trial.
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A woman lines up to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Mexico City on Feb. 17.

Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada

Mar 19, 2021
The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors.
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Coronavirus Updates
Dr. Sabine Straus, chair of the European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, said Thursday that the committee had concluded there is no increase in the overall risk of blood clots with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

European Medicines Agency Finds AstraZeneca Vaccine Safe And Effective

Mar 18, 2021
"Its benefits continue to be far greater than its risks," said Dr. Sabine Straus of the agency's risk committee. It found no increase in the overall risk of blood clots with the vaccine.
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Goats and Soda
A technician waits to collect vials containing vaccine after they pass through a machine that checks for bottling and vaccine substance deficiencies.

The World's Largest Vaccine Maker Took A Multimillion Dollar Pandemic Gamble

Mar 17, 2021
NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.
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Coronavirus Updates
Several European nations have suspended the administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine following reports of blood clotting in some patients.

Sweden, Venezuela Are Latest Countries To Question AstraZeneca Vaccine

Mar 16, 2021
Several other countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland moved to suspend injections of the vaccine this week.
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Coronavirus Updates
A pharmacist prepares to administer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination center in London on Friday.

Ireland Joins List Of Countries Pausing Use Of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine

Mar 14, 2021
Ireland has temporarily suspended use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca following reports that several people developed blood clots after receiving the shot.
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Goats and Soda

Price Check: Nations Pay Wildly Different Prices For Vaccines

Feb 19, 2021
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago gave an impassioned speech about the vaccine rollout, warning of hoarding and price gouging. Here's what we could find out about the cost of a dose.
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Goats and Soda
A health worker inoculates 72-year-old Olga D'arc Pimentel with a dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. She lives on the banks of the Rio Negro near Manaus, Brazil. A small study in South Africa has raised concerns about the AstraZeneca vaccine'

You Think The U.S. Has Vaccine Issues? 130 Countries Haven't Even Started Vaccinating

Feb 14, 2021
For low- and middle-income countries, just obtaining doses has been a challenge. And now concerns are being raised about the effectiveness of the more affordable AstraZeneca option.
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Goats and Soda
A vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. A small study in South Africa has raised concerns about its effectiveness, but the World Health Organization has now stated: "Even if there is a possibility that this vaccine has a reduction in efficacy, we see

Up Against Mutants, WHO Says AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Still A Good Bet

Feb 10, 2021
A small study in South Africa has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine, particularly in fighting virus variants.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced AstraZeneca will deliver nine million additional doses of the company's coronavirus vaccine to the EU.

EU To Get 9 Million More AstraZeneca Doses After Supply Row

Feb 01, 2021
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Sunday that AstraZeneca would also deliver the vaccines one week earlier than originally scheduled.
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Coronavirus Updates
Stella Kyriakides, European commissioner for health and food safety, said that in the future all companies producing COVID-19 vaccines in the EU "will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries."

European Union Warns AstraZeneca Over Reduction In Vaccine Shipments

Jan 26, 2021
"The companies must deliver. They must honor their obligations," the European Commission's president said after both AstraZeneca and Pfizer said they were experiencing shipping issues.
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Coronavirus Updates
A health worker gets ready to take samples from people to test for COVID-19 as another registers them at a marketplace last month in New Delhi.

India Authorizes AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

Jan 02, 2021
Almost 150,000 people in India have died from complications of COVID-19, behind only the U.S. and Brazil. India plans to begin inoculating its population of 1.4 billion this month.
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Coronavirus Updates
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks at the newly authorized AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine.

U.K. Approves AstraZeneca-Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine

Dec 30, 2020
The British government has ordered 100 million doses, enough to vaccinate 50 million residents.
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Goats and Soda

How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts

Dec 03, 2020
Experts say low-risk people in the U.S. will likely be immunized before many high-risk people in poor countries.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
The Phase 3 trial of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused as the company investigates what it says is a study participant's "unexplained illness."

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Trial Paused Due To 'Unexplained Illness' In Participant

Oct 13, 2020
The company said it had paused further dosing in all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials while it investigated the volunteer's illness.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Earlier in the week, AstraZeneca had paused worldwide studies of its candidate vaccine after one U.K. participant developed symptoms consistent with the spinal cord inflammation known as transverse myelitis.

AstraZeneca Resumes Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trials In The U.K.

Sep 12, 2020
The company had placed its worldwide vaccine trials on hold for several days. It now says a safety review by regulators and reviewers is complete. No word on when studies in the U.S. might resume.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Paused, Due To Illness In One Volunteer

Sep 08, 2020
A large study of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been put on hold after one of the volunteers became ill.
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