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Would benefit from discussion of game-changing British, South African, and Brazilian, and mink-farmer variants

Current few lines on

SARS-CoV-2 variant

fail to capture how the picture has changed since mid-December.

oxford AstraZeneca was large scale tested in Brasil and South Africa - and then the new variant appeared - highly unlikely it's just co-incidence — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.178.68.230 (talk) 11:55, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone change EUA pending for South Africa to approved mass vaccination planned, due to its 1st one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine being delivered TapticInfo (talk) 15:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Header question

"Prior to the COVID‑19 pandemic, work to develop a vaccine against coronavirus diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) established knowledge about the structure and function of coronaviruses; this knowledge enabled accelerated development of various vaccine technologies during early 2020."

Although fascinating is this piece of information important enough to be put in the top of the page? Especially for a topic so important and of such interest to general readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackieChunsfather (talk • contribs) 10:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update vaccination map and possible inclusion of Economist mass coverage map

Would the map showing the percentages of people vaccinated benefit from moving towards using colour coding solely to illustrate the information? The exact details can be accessed on WikiCommons and the map looks rather cluttered at the moment. The flip side to this is that the map would look rather sparse currently but just thinking longer term

Also, this map from The Economist showing when countries will likely start full scale vaccination programmes may well be a good inclusion to the article. Here’s the link (it may be behind a paywall) https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/28/vaccine-nationalism-means-that-poor-countries-will-be-left-behind MaStabbo (talk) 13:57, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I support replacing the current visuals. OWID has great SVG visuals that are CC licensed. Their map of percentage of population fully vaccinated would be great. Timeshifter previously proposed using a graphic from Our World in Data (in this thread) but we weren't sure who would handle the regular updates. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:17, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It only takes a few seconds to upload a new version of this map below. Don't be shy. Anybody can do it. Click the download link at the Our World in Data page for the map. Download to your PC desktop, etc.. Then near the bottom of the Commons page for the map click "Upload a new version of this file". Browse to the image file on your PC. Click "Upload file". Since this is a new version of an existing file on the Commons you don't have to enter any text before clicking "Upload file". Once uploaded click Ctrl-F5 if you are using the Firefox browser. This will clear all caches of the map on your PC and pull up the new version. Here is the latest version:

File:World map of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people by country or territory.png

By the way, the above map is the PNG version. It looks better than the SVG version. There is a bug in the Wikimedia software or at OWID that makes the text and logo on the top line overlap. It looks weird, and covers the date. The date is very important. OWID knows of the problem. Go to the SVG version on the Commons to see the problem. --Timeshifter (talk) 20:21, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just followed your guide thanks Timeshifter! -- {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 23:11, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Gtoffoletto. --Timeshifter (talk) 18:33, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possible error in Astra Zeneca clinical trial numbers

The completed phase 3 trials had, from memory, 48,000 participants. The 30,000 referred to seems to be the late-stage US study, running from August 2020 to March 2021.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:20, 11 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

WIBP vaccine

"WIBP from Sinopharm" is listed in the lead as an authorized vaccine, but it does not seem to be listed in the table or elsewhere in the article body. Does anyone have more information on this? John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Percentage in lead

Please remove picture with percents of vaccinated population form the lead. It's extremely outdated. 109.92.52.241 (talk) 12:28, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done updated with new one -- {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 23:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2021

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Hi,

I would like to add the following content to the Wikipedia page related to covid-19 vaccines under the section "Efficacy".

According to the NY Times [1] most of the vaccines that have been approved up to now (from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Astrazeneca, J&J) protect against hospitalization and death for most of the Covid19 variants that have been discovered up to now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/world/africa/covid-vaccine-astrazeneca-south-africa.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR0qQRI22H_WkbDEUx1IHV9Szg8H_CNU-FQpGTrMwYOYO_-uG487ntZkU5Q

Thanks!

Cheers, Mauro Smartasso (talk) 13:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There's already a section in the article that outlines that in more detail. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:26, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I suggest to add the approval of Sinovac's EUA in the Philippines sourced ty. 136.158.33.44 (talk) 06:23, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]