US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine

US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for $2.6 billion bringing its total stock from the firm to 200 million after the Trump administration turned down its chance to buy extra doses of Pfizer’s shot The US government exercised its option to buy another 100 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine for about … Read more

US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine

US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for $2.6 billion bringing its total stock from the firm to 200 million after the Trump administration turned down its chance to buy extra doses of Pfizer’s shot The US government exercised its option to buy another 100 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine for about … Read more

Alex Azar says the FDA will approve Pfizer vaccine ‘in the next couple of days’

President Donald Trump raged at the FDA for taking so long to approve Pfizer’s COVID vaccine on Friday morning and ordered them to ‘stop playing games and start saving lives’ as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said official approval may still take ‘a couple of days’.   A panel of 23 independent scientists voted … Read more

FDA commissioner suggests Pfizer vaccine may not be approved today

Scientists on the FDA’s COVID vaccine advisory committee are finally discussing whether or not to approve it after spending all morning listening to arguments for and against it.  The independent advisory committee met today to discuss the findings of Pfizer’s trial, almost three weeks after it was submitted for emergency authorization and after it was approved … Read more

FDA commissioner suggests Pfizer vaccine may not be approved today

Scientists on the FDA’s COVID vaccine advisory committee are finally discussing whether or not to approve it and are questioning how long it will protect people for against the virus and whether or not trial participants who were given a placebo should receive it.    The independent advisory committee is meeting today to discuss the findings of … Read more

Pregnant women in the US will probably be denied coronavirus vaccines until next year

Pregnant women in the US will likely have to wait to receive Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine after it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show pregnant COVID-19 patients are twice as likely to be admitted to ICUs and three times more likely to … Read more

Josie Gibson gets into a Twitter spat over Pfizer vaccine amid Covid pandemic

Josie Gibson got into a Twitter spat on Thursday after she was accused of spreading ‘dangerous misinformation’ abut Pfizer/BioNTech’s breakthrough coronavirus vaccine. The This Morning presenter, 35, shared an article exploring reports that two NHS staff suffered an ‘anaphylactoid reaction’ just after being immunised on Tuesday.  Within 24 hours of the biggest-ever mass vaccination programme … Read more