WHO launches plan to improve pandemic preparedness

WHO launches plan to improve pandemic preparedness

To help countries better prepare for future pandemics, WHO launched a new initiative that provides guidance on integrated planning for responding to any respiratory pathogen such as influenza or coronaviruses. The new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats...
NIH launches self-reported COVID-19 results website

NIH launches self-reported COVID-19 results website

Reporting a positive or negative test result just became easier through a new website from the National Institutes of Health. MakeMyTestCount.org, developed through NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) Tech program, allows users to anonymously report the...
FDA Authorizes Bivalent Vaccines as Boosters

FDA Authorizes Bivalent Vaccines as Boosters

The US Food and Drug Administration has amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to authorize bivalent formulations of the vaccines for use as a single booster dose at least two months...
New Generation of Corona Vaccine Shows Promise

New Generation of Corona Vaccine Shows Promise

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are developing a coronavirus vaccine designed to be less sensitive to mutations and equipped for future strains. The vaccine showed promising results in mice in a newly published study in EMBO Molecular Medicine, and the...