“AstraZeneca’s decision to start profiting from Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine mid-pandemic shows the utter folly of giving away publicly funded science to Big Pharma.” The multinational pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca drew immediate backlash Friday for announcing an end to its pledge not to profit from its publicly funded coronavirus vaccine until the end of the pandemic, which is still […]
OVERVIEW – 508 new cases | 9 deaths | 141 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high | 54% of Alaskans 5+ vaccinated TAKE ACTION – Choosing to get vaccinated is the single most important action you can take to protect yourself and your community and to keep our economy strong. Learn more about the vaccines at covidvax.alaska.gov and […]
November 10, 2021 (Anchorage) – Alaska joined a coalition of states today in a lawsuit to block a federal government effort to make health care providers force their employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine. A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) rule would mandate vaccines for almost every full-time, part-time, volunteer or contract […]
Excluding federal scientists as co-inventors “could have important public health consequences,” warned one expert. Moderna came under fire Tuesday in response to New York Times reporting about an ongoing dispute with a federal agency over whether government scientists should be credited as co-inventors of a key component of the U.S. company’s Covid-19 vaccine. Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious diseases […]