EXEC COVID-19 News
Europe’s Unvaccinated Are Dropping Out of Society
2022 18 Jan
After little over two years, governments worldwide are still dealing with the challenge of ending the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, vaccines have been available for a year, but a loud minority has refused them and the vaccination certificates that accompany them. Many nations have imposed stricter rules and restrictions on the unvaccinated to... Read more
Pfizer CEO Says Omicron-Targeted Vaccine is Most Likely Outcome
2022 11 Jan
Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Albert Bourla said a redesigned COVID-19 vaccine that specifically targets the Omicron coronavirus variant is likely needed and his company could have one ready to launch by March. Bourla said Pfizer and partner BioNTech SE are working on both an Omicron-targeted vaccine version as well as a shot that would include both... Read more
Omicron Disruptions Around the World
2022 05 Jan
On Monday in the U.S where 62% of the entire population is vaccinated, 1,080,211 new COVID-19 cases were reported, a figure double of that four days prior and a new global record for a single country. On Tuesday, the U.K., France, and Australia also reached record levels, each reaching 200,000, 270,000 and 65,000 daily cases for the first time. In... Read more
World Governments React to Omicron
2021 28 Dec
Around the world, government leaders and advisors are planning strategies for mitigating Omicron impact, which infects previously vaccinated individuals. Although Onicrom produces less severe disease than earlier COVID-19 strains, the variant’s substantially greater transmissibility creates other problems. Massive staffing shortages resulting from... Read more
Supreme Court Fight Looms for U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
2021 23 Dec
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for businesses with at least 100 workers and health care workers on 7 January. This follows a recent ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, which lifted an injunction that blocked the Occupational Safety and Health... Read more
Pfizer Receives U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Novel COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment
2021 22 Dec
PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir [PF-07321332] tablets and ritonavir tablets) is authorized for emergency use in both high-risk adults and high-risk pediatric patients 12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg EUA based on clinical data from EPIC-HR study, showing PAXLOVID reduced risk of hospitalization or death by 89% (within three days of symptom... Read more
EU Approves 5th COVID-19 Vaccine, by Novavax
2021 22 Dec
The European Commission granted conditional marketing authorisation for Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine for individuals 18 years or older. The U.S. biotech, Novavax , currently holds emergency use authorisations for its two-dose vaccine in the Philippines and Indonesia and has received emergency use listing from the World Health Organization. Unlike... Read more
COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Long-Term Strategy
2021 15 Dec
The World Health Organization labelled the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 a ‘variant of concern’ because of its potential to evade immunity conferred by prior infection and the current COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines are directed against previous versions of the spike protein, which the virus uses to enter human cells. The possibility... Read more
The Omicron Variant of South Africa
2021 27 Nov
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new Omicron variant of South Africa to be ‘of concern’, WHO’s most serious category. The new SARS-CoV-2 variant features over 30 mutations in the spike protein that the virus uses to infect human cells. Since effective antibodies and vaccines are directed to previous versions of the spike... Read more
Labs and Drugs
2021 26 Nov
The delivery of high-quality healthcare and the effective treatment of acute and chronic illnesses cannot be achieved without drugs with high efficacy and safety and with laboratories working in the background to undertake basic research and understand the processes behind diseases, mechanism of action of different molecules and presentation of symptoms... Read more
Austria Imposes Full Lockdown and Compulsory Vaccination
2021 20 Nov
Austria is the first EU country to go into full lockdown this season after COVID-19 cases surged. Whereas incidence rates weeks ago were less than 250 cases per 100,000, it now exceeds 1300 per 100,000 and continues on a steep upward trajectory. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with many new COVID-19 patients, and deaths have been rising again, too. ... Read more
Connected Innovation Webinar, 4th edition
2021 24 Nov
"Corporate Social responsibility; Social Networks and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the different Health Systems in Europe" Speakers Valérie Friot Paul Bomke Guillaume Pradalié Chaire Connected Innovation Read more
Nursing Homes Lost 221K Jobs after COVID-19
2021 12 Nov
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing over 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities, recently released a report detailing a labour crisis within the U.S. nursing home industry. The group analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics employment statistics from March 2020, when the first... Read more
5 Ways Big Data Can Benefit the Healthcare Industry
2021 10 Nov
Vlad Vahromovs is an accomplished tech executive with over 15 years of executive leadership experience delivering cutting-edge solutions to industry giants, He is the CEO of Intellectsoft , the technology partner of Fortune 500 companies including EY, Nestle, and Jaguar. Vlad holds modern courses degrees from Stanford and Erasmus University Rotterdam.... Read more
Siemens Healthineers Shape 22 Keynote - It’s Time to Team Up!
2021 05 Nov
On November 15, Siemens Healthineers CEO Bernd Montag will host the @SiemensHealth Shape 22 Keynote. This is an annual signature event organised by Siemens Healthineers. The goal is to present inspiring ideas and novel practices in healthcare. The event provides the platform to bring together a global audience of leading physicians, healthcare executives... Read more
COVID-19 Lessons: Hospital Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
2021 02 Nov
The law firm, Proskauer Rose LLP (New York City), highlights deficits that COVID-19 uncovered in hospital disaster preparedness and emergency management and strategies for improvement. The lessons learned during the pandemic inspired healthcare leaders and regulators to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery. Stopgap measures... Read more
Pfizer Uses COVID-19 Vaccine to Leverage Terms to Governments
2021 31 Oct
Last February, Pfizer was accused of bullying Latin American governments over COVID-19 vaccine supplies. Public Citizen, in investigating government supply contracts, found that Pfizer retains the right ‘to silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk and maximize profits in the worst public health crisis in a century.’ Their analysis included draft... Read more