CHICAGO (WLS) – The trial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has stalled after a foreign patient reported serious side effects. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. Three Chicago hospitals, Northwestern, Rush and Stroger, are among the facilities around the world designed to …
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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD, was fresh from a controversy over the authorization for emergency use of restorative plasma to treat COVID-19 when he made waves again, this time promising on Twitter that the agency would review coronavirus vaccines for the elections of November. And Pfizer executives seem to be …
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Johnson & Johnson plans to launch in late September what may be the largest clinical trial to date against a coronavirus vaccine, enrolling up to 60,000 people worldwide to test whether the experimental shot safely protects against Covid-19. The targeted enrollment, reported on a government database and confirmed by the …
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(Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Getty Images Text size Here’s what you need to know about the impact of Covid-19 to navigate the markets today. • President Donald Trump said Friday that McKesson would work with the U.S. government to spread a coronavirus vaccine if one is approved. …
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