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Read More »Pharmaceutical executives tell Congress they can make a safe coronavirus vaccine in record time
AstraZeneca Covid-19 data looks positive, but falls short of last week’s hype
Text size Jason Alden / Bloomberg Data on the Covid-19 vaccine in development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford published in The Lancet on Monday looked positive, but the stock fell after rising last week due to high expectations for the data. Shares of the US deposit receipt for …
Read More »Why could pooled evidence be a breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19?
Hopes of a COVID-19 summer pardon have been dashed as cases rose in June. As infections increase, so does the need for testing. In late June, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced that health officials were considering conducting pooled tests for COVID-19 …
Read More »AstraZeneca’s long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine passes big test, but confirmation needed
As Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech have been busy this month releasing early data from their COVID-19 vaccine programs, AstraZeneca is joining the July data crash. And overall it’s good news: The vaccine test, known as AZD1222 and developed by AstraZeneca and scientists from the University of Oxford, was generally safe …
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 …
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