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Medicine
Pfizer CEO Bourla Says Fourth Dose May Come Sooner Than Expected
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Thursday that we may need a fourth vaccine dose "faster" in order to combat the omicron variant of Covid-19.
Bourla had previously said that he anticipated the fourth shot to only be necessary...
Business
Greek Restaurant “Omicron” in Wisconsin Has Fun with Variant Name
An unusually-named restaurant that tells patrons "there's something for everyone" is making the most of the strange situation the world finds itself in now by offering its patrons T-shirts that state "I got Corona at Omicron!"
Yes, indeed, "Omicron" is...
Medicine
This is How the Omicron Strain Looks Under a Microscope
Researchers at the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong published the first microscopic images of the new omicron variant of Covid-19 on Wednesday.
The team, which is comprised of medical scientists like pathologists and virologists, isolated an...
Health
Pfizer Says Three Shots Neutralize Omicron Variant
Officials from Pfizer and BioNTech, the firms that produced the very first coronavirus vaccine, said that three inoculations of their product "neutralized" the omicron variant in new laboratory tests.
They then announced that they could deliver a reformulated vaccine in...
Medicine
Study Shows Omicron Variant Partially Evades Vaccine’s Protection
Researchers studying the effects of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine on the Omicron variant announced on Tuesday that the variant is partially capable of evading the vaccine's protection.
The team, which has been working in South Africa since the discovery of the...
Greece
Tsitsipas, Omicron Among Hardest Words to Pronounce This Year
The last name of Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas, along with the name for the latest coronavirus variant, "Omicron," have been deemed some of the most commonly mispronounced words this year by the US Captioning Company.
The company, which provides...
Greek News
Covid-19: Deaths, Intubations Remain High in Greece
Greece recorded a total of 4,943 cases of Covid-19 on Monday.
The record for the highest number of coronavirus cases recorded in one day in Greece was broken on November 9, when 8,623 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed.
In the past...
Greek News
Greece Reports Two More Cases of Omicron Covid Variant
Greece reported two more cases of the Covid-19 strain Omicron on Monday, bringing the total number of the known cases in the country to three.
The two new cases are related to people in Athens who recently traveled from South Africa,...
Greek News
Greece Reports First Case of Omicron Variant on Crete
The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Greece was confirmed on Thursday by the Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris.
He said that a Greek citizen who recently arrived from South Africa was diagnosed as having the...
Health
Do Vaccine Mandates Actually Work?
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Greece announced a vaccine mandate for all people over 60 on Tuesday. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced plans to fine people who refuse the COVID vaccine. A monthly fine of €100 will be imposed on all those in that...