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 Jeenah Moon / Getty Images Pfizer hopes to get emergency food authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine, produced in collaboration with BioNTech, in October – a timeline that is possible, and not the only positive for the biotech industry, according to a Mizuho …
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As California becomes one of the first states to take over Big Tech in the ongoing battle over the employment status of Uber and Lyft drivers, the scofflaw ride-hailing companies are now working their political contacts to prevent them from complying with a law that has been on the books …
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