The stock market may fall if a COVID-19 vaccine receives formal FDA approval. I know I’m advancing myself because it does not guarantee that an effective vaccine will ever be produced. But with eight faxes now in Phase III studies, and with Russia claiming bragging rights by being the first …
Read More »Exclusive: FS to create coronavirus strain for possible trials with human challenge
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to create a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human challenge tests of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would vaccinate and then deliberately infect with the virus, Reuters has learned. FILE PHOTO: …
Read More »NIH chief addresses concerns over speed of COVID-19 vaccine development
The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said despite the images admired by Operation Warp Speed - the Trump administration’s attempt to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible – the federal government takes all necessary precautionary measures for security. In a broad interview Wednesday, NIH chief …
Read More »People should not be afraid of spreading COVID-19 in food, packaging: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence that coronavirus was spread through food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain. PHOTO PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks …
Read More »Novavax delivers 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate to UK
(Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Friday that the UK would buy 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled “Vaccine COVID-19” and a medical syringe in this illustration April 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / …
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