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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The COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by Moderna Inc. and BioNTech and Pfizer Inc. will require strict standards for cooling, and that may hinder how they are distributed to the hundreds of millions of Americans who expect to receive them. Shares of Modern MRNA, -3.54% were 3.6% lower in trading on …
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Text size Dreamstime Older adults who participated in Moderna‘s Phase 1 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine responded just as well as younger adults, according to data, the biotech company presented Wednesday morning to a key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory panel. This is important because Covid-19 is not …
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The coronavirus of 2020 and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 have many differences and share many similarities, but they also combine at one point: their impact on the economy and employment, and in particular, how richer people had better opportunities to survive their respective pandemics. Both pandemics involve new, …
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Text size Data from BioNTech and Pfizer were particularly promising. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images After a hiatus from a late summer break, the news of a Covid-19 vaccine is heating up again as a handful of leading programs are rapidly moving to a decisive phase. Reports from several companies …
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