(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. …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson Initiates Human Vaccine Trials After Monkey Study
Johnson & Johnson began human trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, after the shooting has already proven successful in protecting monkeys, the drug maker announced. The company’s honchos pointed to a new study that found that five out of six primates who received the single dose were protected …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson Single Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates Strong Protection in Preclinical Studies
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, July 30, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) announced today that its leading vaccine candidate protects against infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in preclinical studies. The data, published in Nature, show that the Company’s investigational adenovirus vector-based vaccine …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson begins trial of one-dose Covid-19 vaccine
Text size Johnson & Johnson became the third western biopharmaceutical company to start a new test of its Covid-19 vaccine this week, but with one difference: in a surprise announcement Thursday morning, the company said it would test its vaccine in a format single dose. Moderna (MRNA) and Pfizer (PFE) …
Read More »Pharmacists Compete to Build Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Chains
Pharmaceutical companies competing to develop coronavirus vaccines are already working behind the scenes to build the supply chains necessary to deliver their drugs to billions of people as quickly as possible. To meet global demand once a vaccine is approved, a complicated and high-risk supply chain would be put in …
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