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 »UK beats two Covid-19 vaccine cases for 90 million doses
The UK government said on Friday it had signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccines as the country raced to secure supplies of experimental shots to combat the pandemic. Under the new agreements in principle, the American medicine developer Novavax NVAX, + 7.12% will supply 60 …
Read More »Novavax stock jumps on vaccinated deal with South Korean firm
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 »CDC director warns America is in ‘worst case … we’ve ever been’
While the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine and is waiting to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, there is another impulse ready to be exact this fall. That would be the flu, because America’s annual season of influence usually begins in October before peaking between December and February. And the …
Read More »The ‘excessive deaths’ in the US are 204,691 in 7 months – so COVID-19 deaths may be too bad
The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the …
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