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EXPLAINER: What we know about China-made vaccines

Reuters
Dec 31 07:10 PM

Five vaccines -- including from Sinovac Biotech and China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) are in late-stage clinical trials. None of them has released detailed efficacy data. Read more »

Bicolanos seek alternative energy sources amid post-typhoon brownouts

Mark Toldo
Dec 31 07:03 AM

Bicolanos seek alternative energy sources amid post-typhoon brownouts Read more »

He was hospitalized for COVID-19. Then hospitalized again, and again

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Dec 31 03:33 AM

Since getting sick with the coronavirus in March, Long, 54, has fallen into a distressing new cycle — one that so far has landed him in the hospital seven times. Read more »

How does AstraZeneca's vaccine compare with Pfizer-BioNTech?

John Miller, Reuters
Dec 31 03:20 AM

ZURICH - Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University's home-grown UK COVID-19 vaccine, adding an easy-to-manage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic relief. Read more »

Confused between Sinovac and Sinopharm? What to know about their COVID-19 vaccines

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Dec 30 10:27 PM | Updated Dec 31 12:10 AM

While they’re both leading Chinese vaccine makers and their names sound alike — beginning with the same Latin-derived prefix sino used to refer to China — they are different from each other. Read more »

NAIA 3 seemingly a 'ghost town' days before New Year's due to COVID-19 pandemic

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Dec 30 08:04 PM | Updated Dec 31 12:40 PM

Far from the pre-New Year’s Eve hustle and bustle in previous years, the arrival area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 (T3) seemed like a “ghost town” on Wednesday afternoon, as government imposed a fresh wave of travel restriction on several territories in light of the new “more contagious” coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom. Read more »

With remote learning, a 12-year-old knows her English is slipping away

Juliana Kim, The New York Times
Dec 30 07:41 PM

NEW YORK — When Taniya Ria moved to the Bronx from Bangladesh in 2019, she didn’t know a word of English. Within months, Taniya, now 12, was translating for her mother, making American friends in class and getting good grades. Then the pandemic arrived. Read more »

He was hospitalized for COVID-19. Then hospitalized again. And again.

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Dec 30 04:02 PM

Nearly a year into the pandemic, it’s clear that recovering from COVID-19’s initial onslaught can be an arduous, uneven journey. Now, studies reveal that a significant subset of patients are having to return to hospitals, sometimes repeatedly, with complications triggered by the disease or by the body’s efforts to defeat the virus.   Read more »

China will need an army of vets to defend vs future pandemics

Keegan Elmer, South China Morning Post
Dec 30 01:40 PM

A year after the first COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China's animal public health system remains inadequate. African swine fever exposed inadequacies in 2018 including a lack of qualified vets working in the field.  Read more »

Small number of COVID patients develop severe psychotic symptoms

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Dec 30 08:07 AM

A small number of COVID patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks after contracting the coronavirus. Read more »

THROWBACK: Filipino emergency rescuers' mission

ABS-CBN News
Dec 30 08:03 AM | Updated Dec 30 08:26 AM

"Red Alert" salutes Filipino emergency rescuers who serve their mission to save lives with unparalleled bravery and dedication. Read more »

What the vaccine side effects feel like, according to those who’ve gotten it

Amy Harmon, The New York Times
Dec 29 05:06 AM

The New York Times interviewed several dozen of the newly vaccinated in the days afterward. They recounted a wide spectrum of responses, from no reaction at all. Read more »

What do vaccine efficacy rates mean?

ABS-CBN News
Dec 28 11:32 PM

Developers of COVID-19 vaccines have been reporting different efficacy rates for their anti-coronavirus formulas.  Read more »

ALAMIN: Paano nasasabing ligtas at epektibo ang isang bakuna?

ABS-CBN News
Dec 28 11:12 PM

Ipinaliwanag ng mga eksperto kung ano ang batayan para masabing ligtas ang bakuna. Read more »

China sentences journalist to 4 years over Wuhan virus reporting

Kyodo News
Dec 28 09:35 PM

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a citizen-journalist to four years in prison for disseminating "false" information regarding the new coronavirus during the outbreak in the central city of Wuhan. Read more »

Beyond COVID-19: Mental health, antibiotic resistance and other health woes in 2021

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Dec 28 06:23 PM

The World Health Organization on Christmas Eve said it would help countries battle COVID-19 while also addressing other health issues such as drug resistance and mental health conditions. Read more »

2020 weather disasters boosted by climate change: report

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Dec 28 08:07 AM

The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday.   Read more »

Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?

Reuters
Dec 27 08:45 PM | Updated Dec 27 11:50 PM

The following is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide. Read more »

Holidays in a Pandemic? Here’s What Happened in 1918

Jacey Fortin, The New York Times
Dec 27 04:59 PM

That pandemic, like the coronavirus today, seemed to roll across the United States in waves. Read more »

From the lab to the jab: How BioNTech-Pfizer won the vaccine race

Hui Min Neo, Yannick Pasquet, Michelle Fitzpatrick, and Yann Schreiber, Agence France-Presse
Dec 27 02:23 PM

It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, "we need to fire the starting gun on this".   Read more »

2020: World rocked by COVID-19, Trump and Black Lives Matter

Agence France-Presse
Dec 27 02:04 PM

The COVID-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world.   Read more »

COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last: WHO chief

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Dec 27 12:00 PM

The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are "doomed" without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's chief said.   Read more »

'Heartbreaking to see': Christmas celebrated under pandemic's shadow

Agence France-Presse
Dec 25 07:05 PM

In Catholic-majority Philippines, services were rocked when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the country, capping off a troubled yuletide already muted by bans on parties and carol singing. Read more »

A century after phony flu ads, companies hype dubious COVID cures

Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times
Dec 25 01:56 PM

With a pandemic raging, a spate of ads promised dubious remedies in the form of lozenges, tonics, unguents, blood-builders and an antiseptic shield to be used while kissing. That was in 1918, during the influenza outbreak that eventually claimed an estimated 50 million lives, including 675,000 in the United States. Read more »

TIMELINE: Third update on the coronavirus disease crisis in PH

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group, infographic by Pamela Ramos, ABS-CBN News
Dec 25 03:24 AM | Updated Dec 25 12:02 PM

Since January 2020 when the DOH confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the Philippines, the country has been in a race to protect its people against the rapidly spreading disease that has infected and killed millions of people worldwide. Read more »