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December 2, 2020 @ 6:19 am Blogs, Covid-19
The BBC News is reporting that the UK’s Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) agency has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 for use. According to the BBC, he first 800,000 doses will be rolled out
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December 2, 2020 @ 1:00 am News Daypop
On Tuesday, an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention said that healthcare workers, and workers and residents at nursing homes should be the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes
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December 1, 2020 @ 1:05 am News Daypop
On Monday, U.S. biotech firm Moderna said it will seek an emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate after further clinical trials confirmed it is 94% effective. Moderna plans to request an “EUA” from the U.S.
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November 30, 2020 @ 7:10 am Blogs, Covid-19
The news on the vaccine front is positive. The FDA has scheduled a special meeting for Dec. 10 to review the first vaccine for which Emergency Use Authorization is being sought, the vaccine created by the Pfizer
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November 28, 2020 @ 6:18 am Blogs, Covid-19
The Johns Hopkins COVID Dashboard for Saturday, November 28 at 5:25 a.m.: Worldwide cases: 61,818,348 Worldwide deaths: 1,445,915 U.S. cases: 13,100,386 U.S. deaths: 264,925 According to the Dashboard, the reported worldwide case report increased by 652,989
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced that a vaccine co-invented by the University of Oxford and its spin-out company, Vaccitech, has proven to be up to 90% effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19. The vaccine,
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November 23, 2020 @ 7:00 am Blogs, Covid-19
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Dec. 10 to discuss the request for emergency use authorization (EUA) of a COVID-19 vaccine from
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November 20, 2020 @ 1:05 am News Daypop
Democratic senators said on Thursday that the team working on vaccine distribution planning under President Donald Trump have no intention of briefing anyone on President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team. Senator Chris Murphy said on Twitter, “Just off
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November 17, 2020 @ 1:00 am News Daypop
Moderna said preliminary phase three trial data shows its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective in preventing Covid-19. The analysis evaluated 95 confirmed Covid-19 infections among the trial’s 30,000 participants. Moderna, which developed its vaccine in
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November 16, 2020 @ 6:00 am Blogs, Covid-19
The biotech firm Moderna announced today that preliminary results of its potential vaccine for COVID-19 show a 94.5% effective rate. In early results for its Phase 3 placebo-controlled human clinical trial, 30,000 volunteers were involved. Half received