An FDA expert advisory committee narrowly signed off Tuesday on the first antiviral to treat COVID-19. The drug, molnupiravir from Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, is intended to be used in unvaccinated people at risk for severe COVID-19 within five days of the start of symptoms. The...
SYDNEY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The head of drugmaker Moderna said COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as they have been previously, sparking fresh worry in financial markets about the trajectory of the pandemic. "There is no...
The South African doctor who first reported the Omicron variant has said that symptoms were so far "extremely mild" and that nobody has been hospitalized with it yet. Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a private practitioner and chair of the South African Medical Association, told the BBC's "The...
UPDATED with WHO news: The U.K. added six African countries to its travel quarantine list on Thursday after a new, potentially more-transmissible variant of Covid-19 was identified there. The BBC said the countries are South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Twenty-two positive cases of...
Thousands of Black British immigrants have suffered "truly shocking" delays in government compensation after a scandal erupted four years ago over wrongful deportations, MPs said Wednesday. The government insisted it was serious about processing claims for restitution from members of the "Windrush" generation. But the cross-party Home...