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        <title><![CDATA[Sam Fazeli - Dir:Research Global Industries/Senior Pharmaceutical Analys]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Sam Fazeli is Director of Research for Global Industries and Senior Pharmaceuticals Analyst]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Covid Treatment Will Cost You in 2023]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The US government will soon stop paying for vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and drugs like Paxlovid. That's bad news for already-weak demand.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-08/what-covid-drugs-and-vaccines-will-cost-americans-in-2023</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Jarvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Antibody infusions could cost patients more than $2,000 a pop.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[College Kids and Pet Owners Should Beware Monkeypox Too]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The outbreak has proved more persistent than many thought, and governments have been slow to roll out vaccines. We can’t lose vigilance in the back-to-school rush.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-23/monkeypox-outbreak-college-kids-and-pet-owners-should-beware-the-virus-too</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 04:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Time to vaccinate.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Britain Needs a Better Booster Strategy for Covid]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The UK’s successful vaccine rollout is giving way to a scattershot approach.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-19/britain-needs-a-better-booster-strategy-for-covid</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A member of the public takes a photograph of the National Covid Memorial Wall in Lambeth on 10th August 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The idea for the memorial wall came from Matt Fowler and Jo Goodman, who set up the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why an Up-Your-Nose Covid Spray Will Be Costly]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nasal vaccines against the coronavirus variants are both promising and elusive.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-28/nasal-vaccines-for-covid-make-sense-but-will-be-expensive-to-prove</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A child is restrained as he receives a nasal spray during a vaccination clinic held by Montgomery County Health and Human Services for the H1N1 virus on October 9, 2009 at the Dennis Avenue County Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. AFP PHOTO / Tim Sloan (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why You'll Probably Get Covid (Again) Soon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Despite the general easing of restrictions, the pandemic isn’t over. Most vaccinated people will find the biggest risk is reinfection this winter. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-01/covid-cases-rising-the-next-pandemic-winter-will-look-different</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Medical personnel perform COVID-19 screening tests outside the T-III Dr. Juan Duque de Estrada Health Centre in Mexico City. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AstraZeneca + Pfizer Vaccines = Better Omicron Immunity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The UK's mix-and-match approach to vaccinations looks accidentally brilliant. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-31/mixing-astrazeneca-and-pfizer-vaccine-doses-means-better-omicron-immunity</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 04:00:50 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Mix and match?</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Prepared for a Monkeypox Outbreak Are We?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Monkeypox isn’t a new disease in the same way Covid-19 was. That means we’re in a much better position.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-24/monkeypox-virus-outbreak-how-does-it-spread-is-there-a-vaccine</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Fazeli]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 14:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>SAVANNAH, GA - JANUARY 20: PPfc. Jacob Jennings vaccinates a soldier from the Third Infantry Division against smallpox January 20, 2003 at the Tully Clinic at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia. The vaccine, containing the live virus called vaccinia, is given using a bifurcated, or two pronged, needle. Soldiers receiving the vaccination for the first time gets jabbed three times, and those who have already received the vaccination years ago receive 15 jabs. (Photo by Stephen Morton/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Woman Who Made the UK a World-Beater in Genomics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sharon Peacock, the microbiologist who pioneered Britain’s genomics sequencing effort in the pandemic, talks about why sequencing still matters.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-23/rapid-genomic-sequencing-of-covid-virus-gave-uk-a-pandemic-edge-what-s-next</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 04:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Is Monkeypox and Should We Be Worried About It?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cases of a rare virus related to smallpox have been reported in the US, UK, Canada and Spain. Here’s what we know.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-19/what-is-monkeypox-why-is-it-spreading-and-should-we-worry</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 13:40:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Massachusetts has reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently had traveled to Canada, and investigators are looking into whether it is connected to recent cases in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Crushed Covid. But Covid Zero Could Crush China]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new wave of infections is highlighting the growing cost of China’s zero-tolerance virus policy]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-03-31/china-s-covid-zero-strategy-what-could-xi-jinping-do-next</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chang Shu]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 23:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Workers from a public service organization deliver vegetables to residents of a Shanghai neighborhood in lockdown on March 29. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Covid Era Has More Diabetes and Brain Fog]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Covid infections raise the risk of diabetes, neuropsychological issues and long Covid. But we don’t really understand how. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-30/how-does-covid-affect-diabetes-the-brain-and-long-covid</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A man is tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus near the Shanghai Jing&apos;an Central Hospital in Shanghai on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Covid’s Fifth Wave Shows Us How to Live With the Virus]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Not all countries are impacted equally by the BA.2 subvariant. That tells us a lot about what works and what doesn’t. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-22/covid-s-fifth-wave-shows-us-how-to-live-with-the-omicron-virus-subvariant</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:30:25 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 21: Community health workers wear protective suits as they stand near the Bell Tower at a pop-up nucleic acid testing site for COVID-19 in a traditional neighborhood on March 21, 2022 in Beijing, China. China has stepped up efforts to control a recent surge in coronavirus cases across the country, locking down the entire province of Jilin and putting cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai under restrictions and is carrying out mass testing in other centres as the country tries to maintain its zero COVID policy. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two Ways to Escape China's Zero Covid Trap]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[China will require mass distribution of an existing mRNA booster shot along with antivirals to adapt.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-06/china-s-own-mrna-vaccine-isn-t-its-best-bet-after-zero-covid</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:55:07 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WUHAN, CHINA - MARCH 04 2022: Residents get the mandatory Covid-19 test in a residential block in Wuhan in central China&apos;s Hubei province Friday, March 04, 2022. The city has reported 36 cases in the latest round of the epidemic. (Photo credit should read SHEPHERD ZHOU/Future Publishing via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Omicron Poses a Puzzle for Vaccine Makers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Early studies show the omicron vaccine isn’t an improvement and a broader vaccine will take longer to develop.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-08/covid-omicron-variant-poses-a-puzzle-for-booster-and-vaccine-makers</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 11:22:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A puzzle.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What We Know About Fast-Spreading Omicron Subvariant BA.2]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The omicron variant has a faster-spreading subvariant that is becoming dominant in Denmark and increasing in the U.K.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-02/covid-omicron-subvariant-ba-2-what-do-we-know-about-vaccines-infections</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Open up.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why An Omicron-Specific Vaccine Is Worth Testing]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A jab targeting a specific variant may help against high rates of reinfection, but it needs to work better than existing vaccines.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-27/should-you-get-a-vaccine-targeting-omicron-new-covid-jab-has-to-meet-3-tests</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:35:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An elderly man gets inoculated by a medical staff with the Covishield vaccine as part of the nationwide Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination drive at the SRCC hospital in Mumbai on March 19, 2021 as coronavirus cases continue to increase. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP) (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why China Can’t Loosen Up on Covid Zero Yet]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Without rolling out masses of mRNA vaccine shots, the country will likely be trapped in costly lockdowns. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-19/china-s-zero-covid-vaccine-program-leaves-it-with-omicron-whack-a-mole</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:01:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Zero Covid.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Say Goodbye to Self-Isolating, WFH Mandates, Mass Testing]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s time to rethink our Covid response to account for higher vaccination rates, natural immunity and milder variants like omicron.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-12/time-for-new-covid-omicron-rules-not-self-isolating-wfh-mandates-mass-testing</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:08:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 13: Genview Diagnosis medical assistants Crystal Leyva (L), and Keitia Perez administer COVID-19 sampling tests, to laboratory technicians, at Foxconn Assembly on August 13, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Across the Houston metropolitan area, testing has significantly increased as the Delta variant overwhelms hospitals, and schools and business&apos;s continue to reopen. Houston has seen an upward increase of Delta infections, and research is showing the Delta variant to be 60% more contagious than its predecessor the Alpha variant, also known as COVID-19. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Omicron Presents a Major Challenge for China]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Countries that used so-called killed-virus vaccines may have an even greater need for booster shots. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-17/china-s-sinovac-vaccine-won-t-fully-protect-against-omicron</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Lockdown.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Fourth Shot Against Omicron? Don’t Count It Out]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says we’ll likely need another shot sooner rather than later. But what kind?]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-13/will-boris-johnson-s-omicron-booster-race-be-enough-to-stave-off-the-surge</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Therese Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A prepared Covid-19 vaccine dose in a syringe at the Discovery Ltd. mass Covid-19 vaccination site in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. South Africa&apos;s government is weighing the risks that a stricter lockdown might pose to the economy as it considers tightening restrictions to curb surging coronavirus infections, Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele said.</media:description>
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