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Merck has claimed on Friday (Oct 1) that the world’s first pill to treat the notorious Covid-19 has been developed. The drug, called “molnupiravir”, will be prescribed as 4 capsules twice-daily (8 pills per day) for five days – if the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) authorizes the drug to patients diagnosed with Covid-19. […]
... written on Oct 01 2021Earlier last month (August), the U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has recommended that “immunocompromised” people who received the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines should receive a third dose to improve their chances of developing an adequate antibody response. However, normal healthy-people were excluded. Subsequently, in mid-August, the U.S. FDA agreed with the […]
... written on Sep 06 2021Pfizer-BioNTech said on Monday they have submitted early stage clinical trial data to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeking authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine booster for 16-year-old and older. They said the third dose showed significantly higher neutralizing antibodies compared to two doses against the initial SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as against Beta and […]
... written on Aug 17 2021In many ways, Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Moderna is very similar to the Pfizer vaccine. Both brands are based on genetic material called mRNA. The vaccine introduces the mRNA to the human body, triggering human cells to produce a “spike proteins”. As a result of these proteins, the human body produces antibodies to guard against […]
... written on Aug 10 2021May 29, 2021 was one of the biggest turning points in Malaysia. It was the day the country recorded a whopping 9,020 daily Covid-19 cases in the past 24-hour period, then the highest infections since the Coronavirus outbreak last year. And it was because of the infections that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was forced to […]
... written on Jul 19 2021In 2017, scientists and researchers wanted to develop a single vaccine against all types of Coronavirus. However, the ambitious proposal was given a low priority at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). That’s because at the time, no one had proven a vaccine could stop even a single beta Coronavirus – the […]
... written on Jul 15 2021Two days ago, once-celebrity Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Health Ministry expected the country’s daily Covid-19 to stabilize and show a decline in the next one to two weeks’ time. It was Sunday (July 11) when he made his statement, the day Malaysia reported 9,105 infections, the third consecutive day above the […]
... written on Jul 13 2021As of May 24, Malaysia is among the worst in Southeast Asia in terms of the total number of vaccine doses administered to its population. It had vaccinated only 2.63 million people with at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccines – behind Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and even Cambodia. It is only ahead of Laos, […]
... written on May 31 2021First, it was the race to become the first to produce Covid-19 vaccine. Now, it’s the race to become the first to vaccinate the entire population. As China, the world’s second largest economy, tries to catch up to Europe and the United States, a new record is being broken again. After hitting 15 million people, […]
... written on May 30 2021Muhyiddin Yassin, the power-hungry, but clueless and incompetent prime minister has finally declared a full lockdown effective June 1 to 14. The 2-week nationwide lockdown decision comes on Friday evening (May 28) after the country reported its fourth consecutive day of record infections – a whopping 8,290 Coronavirus new cases and 61 deaths. The […]
... written on May 28 2021
