14 April 2021, 10:00 pm EDT By
The Adenovirus ingredient found in COVID-19 vaccines from Johnson &Johnson (J&J) and AstraZeneca has been one of the top talks of the town as it causes alarm and a dangerous side effect. The use of the virus is to help the delivery and effectiveness of a vaccine as it enters the human body, making people immune to the disease to fight against it.
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In the recent developments of the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech, and Moderna have been released for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It has also been supported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but new players like Oxford s AstraZeneca and J&J are slowly making their way.
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A chicken peers out from a cage at the Sanoh chicken farm January 27, 2007 in Suphanburi, Thailand. The family run Sanoh farm has around 5,000 chickens located in one of the main chicken farm areas two hours north of Bangkok. Although the farm has been completely free of Bird Flu, its owners say that they are struggling to make ends meet with lower prices on eggs and increased prices on chicken feed.
According to The New York Times latest report, the medical innovation is the first vaccine that uses a new molecular design. This new technology could allow NDV-HXP-S to produce more potent antibodies than the current COVID-19 medicines such as Sinovac, Moderna, Johnsons and Johnsons, and more.
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Doctors treat COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit at the third Covid 3 Hospital (Istituto clinico CasalPalocco) during the Coronavirus emergency on March 26, 2020, in Rome, Italy. Hospitals in Italy are under increased pressure as they battle to treat those who have contracted COVID-19. The Italian government continues to enforce the nationwide lockdown measures to control the spread of COVID-19.
The new South African coronavirus variant has no spread to 12 countries. According to CNN s latest report, the researchers said that the new mutation E484K can reduce the current COVID-19 vaccines efficacy.
Penny Moore, South Africa s National Institute for Communicable Diseases associate professor, said that the newly found mutation is very alarming.