A Covid-19 vaccine could be released in March 2021 to the most vulnerable, which along with other advancements could fundamentally change the course of the pandemic, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said Monday. Bruce Aylward also told the WHO annual ministerial meeting that the announced interim results of …
Read More »Pfizer Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective
If the Pfizer vaccine is licensed, the number of doses will initially be limited. Pfizer Inc said Monday that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, hit the global economy and …
Read More »Behind Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, a husband-wife dream team
Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of the German biotechnology company BioNTech. (ARCHIVE) Frankfurt: The positive data on the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer Inc is an unlikely success for the married couple behind the German biotech company, which has dedicated their lives to harnessing the immune …
Read More »Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective in phase 3 trial
Protection in patients was achieved seven days after the second of two doses and 28 days after the first, according to preliminary findings. A vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech was 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing phase 3 trials, the companies announced Monday. Protection in patients …
Read More »Ailments in covid-19 trials raise questions about vaccine method
Johnson & Johnson said Monday night that it would stop its trial to investigate an illness, which it did not specify, in a study participant. Meanwhile, AstraZeneca Plc’s US trial of the vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford has been halted by regulators for more than a …
Read More »Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine Trial Still Ongoing, CEO Says
The side effects that have emerged in a large, late-stage trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE are in line with those seen in smaller initial studies, a positive sign for one of the pioneers in the career. for a drink. The partners have not …
Read More »When will we have the covid vaccine? Initial data expected for September 15
The first results showing whether a vaccine can prevent people from contracting the virus could come in mid-September from AstraZeneca Plc, according to Airfinity Ltd., an analytics company that tracks drug trials. The drug maker has promised up to 30 million doses for the UK by the end of the …
Read More »Pfizer, the BioNTech covid-19 vaccine approved for human clinical trials
[ad_1] SEDAN : Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE obtained approval for the first human clinical trials of a possible coronavirus vaccine in Germany, entering a worldwide race to develop a defense against the pandemic. Regulators have given the go-ahead to test the companies’ proposed vaccine on 200 healthy people ages …
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