The U.S. has topped 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered, according to CDC data. About 35 million people are fully vaccinated, 13.5% of U.S. adults.
On March 2, 2021, counsel for Defendant advised the government that Defendant is pregnant, with an expected due date in July 2021, prosecutors and attorneys for Holmes write. Both parties agree that, in light of this development, it is not feasible to begin the trial on July 13, 2021.
No other details were immediately available.
The trial has already been delayed three times due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Holmes legal team was prepared to raise the issue of mental health as part of her defense strategy. In an earlier court filing, Holmes attorneys wrote they intend to introduce evidence relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant bearing on.. the issue of guilt.
Dr. Pei-Yong Shi, professor and John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Innovations in Molecular Biology at University of Texas Medical Branch, is the senior author of a new study that shows the Pfizer vaccine neutralizes the Brazilian variant.
Shi studied blood from the vaccinated and compared them against the variants.
“The results found from the U.K. and Brazilian variants, the vaccinated blood equally inhibit those two compared variants with the original virus, ” said Shi. “In contrast, the South African strain that the antibodies from the vaccinated individual dropped its the activity by two-thirds.”
As for the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Shi considers the South African strain “a major concern,” but stresses that all three vaccines inhibit the virus below a dangerous threshold.
“It is important to emphasize that we have not opted out of the AstraZeneca vaccine, but that we are putting it on hold,” the country’s National Board of.