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The authorization comes as India faces a devastating new surge of Covid infections.

The International Monetary Fund revised its growth forecast for 2021 up to 4%.

The double-mutant strain contains two key mutations, E484Q and L452R, that have been found separately in other variants but not together in a single strain.

Hospitals are seeing more and more younger adults in 30s and 40s admitted with severe disease from the coronavirus.

Singapore needs a “suite of measures” beyond Covid vaccinations in order to open up its economy, said S Iswaran, minister for communications and information.

The new variant will not be limited to India, but will likely emerge in other parts of the world as well, said Dr. Kavita Patel of the Brookings Institution.

Former President Donald Trump picked GlaxoSmithKline veteran Moncef Slaoui to run Operation Warp Speed, the Covid vaccination effort, last year.

Herd immunity refers to the situation where a disease cannot spread easily in a population because most people are immune to it.

Paul Hudson is the CEO of Sanofi. The French pharmaceutical company has two Covid-19 vaccines under development — one with GlaxoSmithKline, the other with Translate Bio for an mRNA vaccine. It’s also manufacturing vaccine doses for competitors Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. As we enter the one-year anniversary of initial lockdowns across the globe, it is clear the Covid-19 pandemic…

Alaska on Tuesday became the first state to make Covid vaccines available to anyone 16 and older who works or lives in the state, effective immediately.

Countries cannot let their guard down and must ramp up efforts to contain COVID-19 in the face of more new cases, said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan of the WHO.

DP World has launched a vaccine logistics alliance with Emirates and Dubai Airports to speed up the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world.

The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University has the same level of efficiency against the new Covid variant, according to new data Friday.

Now under Democratic control, the powerful Senate Finance Committee aims to take on billionaires, dark money groups and several special interests.

A one-shot vaccine could significantly improve our ability to fight the virus — and we may have one soon.

“We’ll be shipping first product in the beginning of January,” Ellume CEO Dr. Sean Parsons told CNBC.

Antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly could reduce Covid-19 hospitalizations by 50 to 70%. Thousands of doses go out weekly, but they’re not getting used.

The challenges of distributing Covid-19 antibody drugs could portend issues with vaccine logistics, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.

Most African Americans are highly skeptical of the Covid vaccine. Black health-care leaders are trying to build trust in communities hard hit by the virus.

The announcement was thin on details, however, and did not mention any side effects experienced by patients.