Text size Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg Novavax said it has a deal with SK Bioscience to produce the antigen component of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate during the pandemic period. The stock jumped more than 9% Thursday morning. Novavax (ticker: NVAX) said its development and supply agreement with the South Korean …
Read More »First COVID-19 vaccine volunteers in the US describe their experience, side effects as San Francisco Bay Area launches its tears
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – As we first reported on ABC7 News, a Phase 3 trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine will begin this month in the Bay Area. It is one of six companies that are part of the US Government’s Operation Warp Speed to develop a vaccine. The San Francisco …
Read More »Moderna steps 10% after Trump says US government deal has reached 100 million doses of his coronavirus vaccine
AP Photo / Hans Pennink President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government has reached a deal with Moderna for 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. Shares of Moderna spiked as much as 10% on Wednesday. The company separately announced that the deal is worth $ 1.53 …
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 »Modern COVID-19 vaccine rapidly kills virus in lungs, monkey noses: study
The monkeys deliberately infected with the CCP virus and receiving the Massachusetts-based experimental vaccine COVID-19 from Moderna were able to quickly clear the virus from their lungs, researchers said July 28. A study (pdf) published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday suggested that the experimental vaccine, MRNA-1273, …
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