Carolyn Crist
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COVID-19 antibody drug likely works against Omicron, companies say
December 2, 2021
The preliminary findings haven’t yet been peer-reviewed.
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Moderna warns of material drop in vaccine efficacy against Omicron
December 1, 2021
“There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level … we had with Delta.”
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Unvaccinated people 20 times more likely to die from COVID: Texas study
November 10, 2021
“The COVID-19 vaccines are doing an excellent job of protecting people from getting sick and from dying from COVID-19.”
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COVID-19 vaccines provide 5 times the protection of natural immunity, CDC study says
November 2, 2021
“We now have additional evidence that reaffirms the importance of COVID-19 vaccines, even if you have had prior infection.”
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Unvaccinated people likely to catch COVID repeatedly
October 26, 2021
“Reinfection can reasonably happen in three months or less.”
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Merck seeks FDA authorization for antiviral COVID-19 pill
October 11, 2021
If the FDA grants authorization, the drug would be the first oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19.
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New York’s largest health care provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated employees
October 6, 2021
A few thousand Northwell employees got vaccinated as the deadline approached.
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Pfizer COVID vaccine antibodies may disappear in 7 months, study says
October 4, 2021
“Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by 7 months.”
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WHO tracking new COVID-19 variant called Mu
September 2, 2021
The World Health Organization is tracking a new COVID-19 variant called Mu, which could be able to evade the immunity provided by the vaccines and prior infections.The variant, also kn...
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Latest data show increase in breakthrough COVID-19 cases
August 18, 2021
“Remember when the early vaccine studies came out, it was like nobody gets hospitalized, nobody dies. ... That clearly is not true.”