US President Donald Trump will speak to the press at the White House Brady Briefing Room in Washington, DC on August 10, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will purchase 100 million doses of Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, which …
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Merck & Company, Inc., dba Merck Sharp & Dohme outside the United States and Canada, is an American pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | fake pictures Merck has scheduled “very large pivotal studies” for its oral coronavirus treatment in …
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A nurse holds a one-dose bottle and a prepared syringe of the measles, mumps, and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019 in Provo, Utah. George Frey | fake pictures Pharmaceutical giant Merck beat Wall Street expectations in the second quarter …
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the Trump Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, at Capitol Hill, Washington, DC on June 23, 2020. Kevin Dietsch | Pool via Reuters The Food and Drug Administration would authorize a …
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Moderna Inc.’s candidate vaccine against Covid-19 protected against the virus in a trial that inoculated 16 monkeys, an encouraging step on the road to defending humans against the pandemic. Two injections of the vaccine protected against intense exposure to the virus at two different dosage levels, Modern he said in …
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