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Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence is being publicly vaccinated at the White House. PHOTO: Reuters
The EU is negotiating vaccines from a seventh company
The EU is on track to add a promising seventh vaccine to the six already provided, the European Commission said. The exploratory talks with Novavax have ended and a contract will be signed for the purchase of 100 million doses with the possibility of an additional 100 million. The vaccine from this US company is currently in the third stage of clinical trials. The European Commission already has supply contracts with 6 other companies, the vaccines of two of which, “Pfizer” and “Modern”, are awaiting approval from the European Medicines Agency.
It has become clear that the Moderna vaccine, which was approved for use in the United States on Friday, has shown 100% efficacy in people 65 and older. It can be transported in liquid form between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius, which saves the construction of the so-called. Cold chains required for Pfizer vaccine stored at minus 70 °.
The EC ordered
additional
80 million doses
Modern vaccine for EU countries, bringing total doses to 160 million.
The main side effects are headache, muscle aches, and fatigue. Only 7 out of 30,000 volunteers reported more serious disorders, such as swelling of the cheeks and lips and temporary paralysis of part of the face. Due to a production problem, 400,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine had to be destroyed, Bloomberg said.
Pfizer boss Albert Burla explained that he has not yet been vaccinated because he is in good health throughout his 59 years and does not intend to warn people that they currently need more immunizations. Instead, on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence publicly vaccinated Pfizer and the event was broadcast on all television. “I didn’t feel anything. Well done,” he said. The goal is to encourage mass immunization of the population. President-elect Joe Biden is also expected to be publicly vaccinated next week.
Belgian Secretary of State Eva de Blecker mistakenly announced prices for COVID-19 vaccines and angered the European Commission as it is a trade secret. The data was released on Twitter during the discussion of the federal budget. According to them, a dose of
the vaccine
AstraZeneka
it costs 1.78 euros,
Johnson & Johnson – $ 8.50, Sanofi – $ 7.56, Pfizer – $ 12, Curwak – $ 10 and Modern – $ 18.
Subsequently, De Blecker deleted the message containing confidential information. The EC refused to officially announce the prices, but provided the information to all member states.
Austria begins mass vaccination on December 27. In Greece, 750 vaccination centers have been established and 5,000 police officers will monitor the transport of the vials to the islands. Doctors and teachers will be the first to be immunized, BNR reported.
Mass trials of the second Russian vaccine end in January. Turkey, meanwhile, ranks third in the world after the United States and China in developing vaccines against COVID-19. Turkish scientists are working on 13 different preparations, 4 of which are in an advanced stage.
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