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This was a relatively quiet weekend in life sciences world.
The WHO updated its Covid guidelines on masks, treatments and patient care, and the agency is now backing masks on long flights. With good reason, as evidenced by a flight from China to Italy where 42% of the people on board tested positive for Covid. Speaking of China, the country has reported nearly 60,000 deaths in the month since it relaxed Covid protocols.
In the US and Taiwan, health authorities have flagged a possible stroke risk with Pfizer/BioNTech's bivalent booster jab, linking it to a type of brain stroke in older adults. Unlike what the "no-needles-in-my-arms" crowd will have you believe though, no agency anywhere is calling for a change in vaccination practices. The US CDC says it's 'very unlikely' the booster carries a stroke risk after launching a review.
Nigeria has been facing a shortage of essential drugs and medicines for a while now. However, other drugs have been proliferating. So much that enforcement agencies in Nigeria seized drugs worth over N5bn in Lagos.
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