Vaccines

Sesame Street has been encouraging children to get vaccinated for decades, dating back to when Sen. Ted Cruz was just two years old. Nonetheless, the Texas Republican has slammed Big Bird for marketing the COVID-19 vaccine...

A “once-in-a-generation” music event circled the world on Saturday, with a slew of megastars taking the stage in New York for Global Citizen Live — 24 hours of shows across the planet to raise awareness on...

Billie Eilish, BTS, and Elton John, among others, will donate their star power to Global Citizen Live on Saturday for a global event to raise awareness about climate change, vaccine equity, and famine. Concerts in New...

In a written greeting to the first meeting of the international conference on COVID-19 vaccine cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated China will give 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccinations for the globe and offer COVAX...

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller has said his country understands urgency of providing “safe” and “effective” COVID vaccine to Bangladesh, adding Washington DC’s vaccine donations that arrived here last night is “only the beginning”. “The...

The first consignment of 1,00,620 doses of Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine arrived in Bangladesh last night under the global vaccine-sharing initiative COVAX. “A total of 1,00,620 shots of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine under COVAX scheme reached Bangladesh at...

The government today approved a proposal in principle to procure SARS COV 2 (COVID-19) vaccines from Sinopharm of China under the Direct Procurement Method (DPM) in order to meet the growing demand of vaccines in the...

France and Germany were set to resume AstraZeneca vaccinations Friday after EU regulators gave the jab the all-clear, and Joe Biden said his administration would meet its goal of inoculating 100 million Americans weeks ahead of...

An editorial co-authored by a member of the UK’s influential SAGE committee that advises the UK Government on COVID-19, and published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) says that in order for the...

The United States plans to distribute 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer and Biotech Covid-19 vaccine in the first week. The plan was announced after an application for permission to use it on an emergency basis...