While markets reacted positively this week to promising news of possible developing coronavirus vaccines, a leading economist warned that the economic impact of the pandemic will be here for a long time. A large number of small businesses that closed in March when restrictions on social movements went into effect …
Read More »Pharmaceutical executives tell Congress they can make a safe coronavirus vaccine in record time
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Read More »WHO applauds Oxford coronavirus vaccine data: “It’s good news”
The executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency program, Mike Ryan, speaks at a press conference on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday applauded data recently released by researchers from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on …
Read More »Investors applaud when two coronavirus vaccine candidates report T-cell responses, but findings are still at an early stage
At least two experimental COVID-19 vaccines produced a T-cell response in participants in early-stage clinical trials, which may indicate a longer-lasting form of immunity than an antibody response. BioNTech BNTX, + 3.46% and Pfizer Inc. PFE, + 0.69% It said early Monday morning that an ongoing early-stage clinical trial for …
Read More »Oxford and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine shows positive response in early trial
A possible coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford in the UK with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has produced a strong immune response in a large early-stage trial in humans, according to recently published data published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet. . The researchers are calling their …
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