THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended on Thursday that the agency approve the emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, clearing the way for a national campaign to inoculate enough Americans to stop the spread of COVID-19. The decision came not a moment too soon, as the country […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 7, 2020– Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced that the Canadian Government has increased its confirmed order commitment by 20 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine candidate against COVID-19, mRNA-1273, bringing its confirmed order […]
The emergency approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the UK and the imminent roll-out of several other vaccines in 2021 raises serious questions about New Zealand’s likely uptake of this vital public health response. Recent research into New Zealanders’ attitudes to vaccination suggest positions have become more polarized over the last decade, with 60% […]
Nurses cheered on Tuesday as an elderly British grandmother became the first person in the Western world to receive an approved vaccine against COVID-19, at the start of a marathon campaign health officials hope heralds a fight-back against the global pandemic. Margaret Keenan called the jab she received at a hospital in Coventry, central England, […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, reports on Sunday said, as the biggest immunisation programme in UK history begins next week. The monarch, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip are in line to get the jab early in the rollout, which gets underway Tuesday, due to their age […]
THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 — All Americans who get a COVID-19 vaccine will get a vaccination card, officials say. The cards are the “simplest” way to keep track of those who have received a shot, according to Kelly Moore, M.D., associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, which supports frontline workers who will administer COVID-19 […]
The email that arrived in the ancient German city of Mainz shortly before 1 a.m. in the morning marked a turning point in the global effort to deliver a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic—and for the little-known biotechnology company that helped develop it. BioNTech has at times been portrayed as the junior partner in […]
The United Kingdom has granted emergency authorization to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, becoming the first Western country to approve a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The first doses of the vaccine are expected to roll out in the U.K. next week. Prizer’s coronavirus vaccine, developed with BioNTech, was recently shown to be 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 […]
CDC to vote on who will get coronavirus vaccine first Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ A panel of independent experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a public meeting on Tuesday voted that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be […]
The head of British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca said on Thursday further research was needed on its COVID-19 vaccine after questions emerged over the protection it offers, but the additional testing is unlikely to affect regulatory approval in Europe. AstraZeneca and its partner, the University of Oxford, announced on Monday that it was seeking regulatory approval […]
