LONDON / BRUSSELS / GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization will receive a flood of promises of support for its COVID-19 vaccine plan for all next week. FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen in the Reference Center for Special Immunobiologists (CRIE) of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is taking an aggressive step to seize enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times, a pressure that the government hopes to instill confidence that it can host a delayed Olympic Games next year. FILE PHOTO: People in traditional costume kimonos, wearing protective masks as …
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One COVID-19 vaccine in development may be ready for review in December. Managers at Novavax say they are now enrolling volunteers for a second phase of clinical trials. The data should be ready for assessment within a few months. Phase 1 data showed the two-dose vaccine in healthy adults producing …
Read More »Moderna says Covid-19 vaccine shows signs of working in older adults
Moderna Inc. said Wednesday that his experimental coronavirus vaccine caused immune responses in people 56 years and older that were comparable to those seen in younger adults in a small study, a promising sign for a vulnerable age group. Older adults have a higher risk of hospitalization and death of …
Read More »Will Moderna or Pfizer have better Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine data?
Text size Maddie Meyer / Getty Images Analysts begin to speculate on which of the Covid-19 vaccines could win, after scientists working on two of the most advanced vaccine programs made presentations about their progress at a meeting of a key advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and …
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