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WHO Says Worst of Pandemic Could Ease This Year if Vaccine Inequities Erased drugs.com
January 19, 2022
If COVID-19 vaccines and medicines are shared equally worldwide, the pandemic could ease this year, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.
Moderna CEO says data for Omicron-specific shot likely available in March ExpressPharma
January 18, 2022
Moderna Inc’s vaccine candidate against the Omicron coronavirus variant will enter clinical development in the next few weeks...
90% of Chinese people vaccinated against COVID-19 NMPA/Xinhua
January 18, 2022
Over 1.26 billion Chinese people, or nearly 90 percent of the country's population, have received COVID-19 vaccine jabs as of Friday, said a health official on Saturday.
Medlab receives grant to develop NanoCelle nasal vaccine for Covid-19 Pharmaceutical-Technology
January 18, 2022
The company will collaborate with the University of NSW and Macquarie University for vaccine development.
COVAX delivers its 1 billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose FirstWordPharma
January 17, 2022
A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccines to Rwanda included the billionth dose supplied via COVAX.
Peru urges vaccine sellers to extend expiration dates to cut risk of losses FirstWordPharma
January 17, 2022
Peru’s Health Minister Hernando Cevallos asked companies to extend expiration dates past the current three months to reduce the risk of losing COVID-19 vaccine doses, as reported in National Post.
US FDA amends J&J vaccine fact sheet to include rare bleeding risk ExpressPharma
January 14, 2022
The amendment fact sheet follows similar moves for the vaccine by other regulators, including that of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in October.
Skipping COVID Vaccine in Pregnancy Brings Big Risks to Mothers, Babies drugs.com
January 14, 2022
Unvaccinated pregnant women are putting themselves and their baby at risk for serious complications of COVID-19, according to new research out of Scotland.
S Korea authorises use of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine ExpressPharma
January 13, 2022
South Korean vaccine developer SK Bioscience said it will produce the Novavax vaccine
Pfizer’s Prevnar 20 with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shows positive results in phase-III study ExpressPharma
January 13, 2022
responses elicited by Prevnar 20 for all 20 serotypes were similar whether given with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or with placebo.