Operation Warp Speed is living up to its name as, according to the project, one of the leading candidates for the COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, is partnering with life science services company IQVIA to boost its work on the shot. Under the plan, the financial details of which were not disclosed, …
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Johnson & Johnson, like all drug makers in the COVID-19 vaccine race, hopes to muster enough manufacturing capacity to rapidly scale production of its vaccine. Now, for a sum of nearly half a trillion dollars, J&J is ready to put his money where his mouth is. J&J and Maryland-based CDMO …
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In the month ending April 7, 423 cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center were diagnosed with COVID-19, 20% of whom developed severe respiratory symptoms. That in itself was not surprising, given that cancer patients are immunocompromised and therefore face an increased risk of fighting the virus. But a …
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Soweto, South Africa – Prince William of Great Britain went to Oxford University on Wednesday to meet with patients participating in a human trial of coronavirus vaccine. But with cases of COVID-19 plummeting in England, the researchers fear the 10,000-person trial may not yield conclusive enough results to show that …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A test in pigs of AstraZeneca (AZN.L) The experimental vaccine COVID-19 has found that two doses of the injection produce a greater antibody response than a single dose. Research published Tuesday by Britain’s Pirbright Institute found that administering an initial main dose followed by a booster dose …
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