Studies could pave the way for a universal flu shot that could help prevent future pandemics. Universal vaccination would eliminate the guesswork involved in designing annual vaccines months in advance of each flu season. Vaccine-induced antibody levels were stable for at least four months. In preliminary tests on mice and ferrets, an experimental vaccine provided … Read more
Pfizer has asked a U.S. court to toss out an informant’s claim that the organization can’t be at fault for misrepresentation, misuse, and convention infringement in its COVID Vaccine clinical preliminaries. The informant, Brook Jackson, was the provincial chief for the Ventavia Research Group. The U.S. Division of Justice declined to mediate for the benefit … Read more
FRANKFURT: German vaccine-maker BioNTech on Wednesday reported a multi-billion-euro windfall in 2021 from sales of its anti-coronavirus jab, developed together with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Mainz-based BioNTech said it made a net profit of 10.3 billion euros ($11.5 billion) last year, up from 15 million euros in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. The … Read more
WASHINGTON: A fourth dose of existing mRNA Covid-19 vaccines may have only “marginal benefits” for younger, healthy adults, according to a new Israeli study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research assessed 270 health care workers at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv who received a second booster shot of … Read more
WASHINGTON – Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine greatly reduced the risk of Omicron infection among children aged 5 to 15, according to a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday. Children and adolescents aged 5 to 15 were tested for SARS-CoV-2 weekly, irrespective of symptoms, during July … Read more
GENEVA – Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the continent largely shut out of access to Covid jabs. Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia were selected as the first recipients of technology from the WHO’s global mRNA vaccine hub, in a … Read more
PARIS: French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi on Tuesday unveiled a 3.2-billion-US dollar deal to acquire US biotech company Translate Bio in a move to accelerate development of next-generation mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) technology and catch up with its peers in the Covid-19 vaccine race. In a joint statement, Sanofi said it has entered into a definitive … Read more
Switzerland announces that children between 12 to 15 years old could be vaccinated with the shot from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. The recommendation was given earlier this month by the Swissmedic, drug regulator in Switzerland. It is mainly aimed at the youth in groups It is primarily directed at youth in groups who … Read more
