- Contaminated Moderna vaccine vials were found in Japan.
- With the surge in Covid-19, Sydney’s health system is under pressure.
- The United States may approve booster injections soon.
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Read | Japan stopped using 1.63 million doses of Moderna due to pollution
Due to pollution, Moderna detained 1.63 million doses of vaccine in Japan
Moderna Inc said on Wednesday that it has stopped supplying approximately 1.63 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in Japan after reporting that the vial was contaminated with particulate matter.
The company said the pollution may be due to manufacturing problems in a production line at its contract manufacturing base in Spain.
There were 565,400 vaccine batches in complaints, and Moderna stated that it has shelved this batch of vaccines and two adjacent vaccines “out of prudent consideration”.
Sydney hospital erects emergency tent
On Thursday, the number of new Covid-19 daily cases in Australia exceeded 1,000 for the first time since the start of the global pandemic, as two major hospitals in Sydney set up emergency outdoor tents to help cope with the increasing number of patients.
A spokesperson for the Western Sydney Regional Health District told Reuters that the temporary department set up by the emergency department for Covid-19 patients would help “reduce delays.”
State Governor Gladys Berejiklian stated that the authorities had quadrupled the number of intensive care ventilators in the state in early 2020 to 2,000 units.
She said that although the system is “under pressure”, once the vaccination rate rises, it can withstand the current crisis.
US plans to inject Covid-19 boosters within six months-Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that US health regulators may begin to approve the third Covid-19 injection for adults at least six months after full vaccination, instead of the previously announced eight-month interval.
The report quoted a person familiar with the situation as saying that three Covid-19 injection boosters (manufactured by Pfizer and its partners BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson) are expected to be approved in the United States in mid-September. Pusher. plan.
Delta Air Lines increases health insurance costs by US$200 per month for unvaccinated employees
Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday that if employees choose not to get the Covid-19 vaccine, they will have to pay an extra $200 per month for company-sponsored health care plans.
The surcharge for medical insurance is the latest strategy for American companies to promote employee vaccination to fight the pandemic.
Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian (Ed Bastian) stated in an employee memo that the monthly surcharge will take effect on November 1.
He said the surcharge is necessary to address the financial risks faced by the Atlanta-based airline due to its decision not to vaccinate.
In the United States, any employee who is not fully vaccinated must be tested for Covid-19 once a week. Mandatory testing will begin on September 12.
A quarter of vaccinated Los Angeles residents are infected with Covid-19
From May to July 2021, as the Delta variant spread, 43,127 residents of Los Angeles County, California were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2.
Public health officials reported in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly on Tuesday that although the hospitalization rate, intensive care rate, and ventilator assistance rate of these patients were lower than those of unvaccinated patients, they were four points One report has been fully vaccinated.
The authors noted that during the study period, the prevalence of Delta variants rose from less than 9% to at least 87%.
They estimate that as of July 25, the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated patients is 29 times higher. “This shows that in areas where the prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is increasing, the Covid-19 vaccine can prevent severe Covid-19″.
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