(Reuters) – The United States government has set a benchmark for the price of the COVID-19 vaccine in a $ 2 billion deal announced Wednesday with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and the German biotechnology BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) which will likely pressure other manufacturers to set similar prices, industry analysts told Reuters. …
Read More »The United States agrees to purchase 100 million doses of the candidate vaccine Pfizer COVID-19 for $ 1.95B
The United States will pay the pharmaceutical company Pfizer $ 1.95 billion to produce and deliver 100 million doses of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate in case the drug is effective in human trials, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. Pfizer will administer the vaccine when the …
Read More »Bill Gates says multiple doses of vaccine may be necessary to protect against coronavirus
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Wednesday that people may need multiple doses of a possible coronavirus vaccine to immunize against the coronavirus. If necessary, multiple doses may require the administration of more than 7 billion vaccines worldwide. “None of the vaccines right now seems to work with a single dose,” …
Read More »Bill Gates says multiple doses of vaccine may be necessary to protect against coronavirus
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Wednesday that people may need multiple doses of a possible coronavirus vaccine to immunize against the coronavirus. If necessary, multiple doses may require the administration of more than 7 billion vaccines worldwide. “None of the vaccines right now seems to work with a single dose,” …
Read More »UK coronavirus vaccine elicits immune response in early test
LONDON, England – Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine was shown in an initial trial to elicit a protective immune response in hundreds of people who received the vaccine. British researchers began testing the vaccine in April on about 1,000 people, half of whom received …
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