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Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs
Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs
Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that dominates the market for COVID vaccines in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and Japan, with bilateral agreements for more than six billion doses, is also set to become the main supplier to COVAX, the global vaccine programme to the world’s poorer countries.
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Published at 2021-12-27 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Business, Health, Politics
Palace Exec Proposes Paradigm Shift in Monitoring COVID-19 Cases
Palace Exec Proposes Paradigm Shift in Monitoring COVID-19 Cases
Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned.
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Published at 2021-12-28 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Politics
Restaurants, Spas Can Fire Unvaxxed Staff, Defer Pay
Restaurants, Spas Can Fire Unvaxxed Staff, Defer Pay
Establishments that are allowed to offer dine-in or in-person services under the relaxed alert levels so long as their workers are vaccinated can withhold the salary of—or even fire—employees who are not vaccinated. The recent guidelines of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) exempted certain establishments from the “no vaccine, no work” and “no vaccine, no pay” policies.
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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Business, Health, Legal
Philippines Suspends Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine for People Under 60
Philippines Suspends Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine for People Under 60
Philippine health authorities suspended on Thursday the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for people below 60 years of age to investigate reports of blood clots coming from overseas. The temporary suspension came after the European Medicines Agency recommended to include blood clots as a rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Food and Drug Administration chief Rolando Enrique Domingo said in a statement, adding that there were no reports of such adverse side effects in the country.
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Published at 2021-04-12 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Legal, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine Bribery Won’t Happen in PH
COVID-19 Vaccine Bribery Won’t Happen in PH
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after a Washington Post report said court records show that Sinovac, a Chinese firm applying to run COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in the Philippines, acknowledged a bribery case involving its CEO.
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Published at 2020-12-10 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Legal, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, vaccine
World Bank: Pandemic to Sink 2.7M More Filipinos in Poverty
World Bank: Pandemic to Sink 2.7M More Filipinos in Poverty
The COVID-19 pandemic will make 2.7 million more Filipinos poor this year on top of a record slide in the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) or economic output in what could be the worst outturn post-war, the World Bank said Tuesday.
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Published at 2020-12-10 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, People, Society
100M Filipinos Could Be Inoculated Vs COVID-19 if Vaccines at P600 Each
100M Filipinos Could Be Inoculated Vs COVID-19 if Vaccines at P600 Each
Over 100 million Filipinos are estimated to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) if each vaccine that the government would buy is priced at P600, Senator Sonny Angara said Thursday.
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Published at 2020-12-10 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, vaccine
The Other Side of the Vax
The Other Side of the Vax
At the beginning of August, 2020, we wrote in this column the imperative to think and act outside the vax. If other nations’ authorities managed to mitigate the pandemic’s ruthless consequences on their people’s lives and livelihood, keep recession relatively mild and prevent joblessness from leading to suicide without vaccines, it is difficult why the Philippines has failed to do it.
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Published at 2020-12-03 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Health, Opinion
Russia Eyes Manufacture, Trial of Coronavirus Vaccine in PH
Russia Eyes Manufacture, Trial of Coronavirus Vaccine in PH
Russia has proposed to manufacture its vaccine for the new coronavirus in the Philippines, a move seen as opening a Southeast Asian hub for the production of its drug for COVID-19. The plan is part of a bilateral deal proposed by Russia to the Philippines, which includes joint clinical trials and immediate provision of vaccine supply after the third and final phase and regulatory approval.
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Published at 2020-09-11 by Puerto Parrot