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Moderna will today submit their Covid-19 vaccine for emergency approval after final results from trials show it is 94.1 per cent effective at preventing infections and the UK is set to approve Pfizer’s jab ‘within days’. Final results from the companies stage 3 trials mark a landmark success for the vaccine, with only 11 out … Read more
Hospitals in England have been told to prepare for the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine in as soon as 10 days, it has been reported, with NHS staff first in line to receive it. According to The Guardian, hospitals could receive the first deliveries of the vaccine created by Pfizer/BioNTech between December 7 and December … Read more
Hospitals in England have been told to prepare for the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine in as soon as 10 days, it has been reported, with NHS staff first in line to receive it. According to The Guardian, hospitals could receive the first deliveries of the vaccine created by Pfizer/BioNTech between December 7 and December … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has asked the UK’s drugs regulator to ‘understand the data’ coming out of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine trial as it decides whether to approve the jab for public use. Government officials last night asked the MHRA to consider giving emergency approval for the jab so that it could be given out from … Read more
Coronavirus vaccine makers tightly controlled who was enrolled to their trials, their vaccine dosages, the timing of those doses and much more – but they did not monitor participants’ other behaviors, like mask-wearing, that affect infection risks. Trial participants were left to decide for themselves where and how often to wear masks and how to … Read more
People in the UK could start actually receiving vaccines against coronavirus from December 9, according to a local health boss. The NHS in Nottingham is gearing up to start doling out jabs in less than two weeks’ time, if one is given the green light by the drugs regulator. None have yet been approved for public … Read more
People in the UK could start actually receiving vaccines against coronavirus by December 9, according to a local health boss. The NHS in Nottingham is gearing up to start giving people jabs in less than two weeks’ time if one is given the green light by the drugs regulator. None have yet been approved for … Read more
Britain has ’50/50 chance’ of becoming the first country in the world to have an approved coronavirus vaccine – and it could be NEXT WEEK, source says A decision on whether a vaccine will be approved could come by next week A Government source said it was ‘very likely’ Pfizer will be licensed first Said … Read more
Britain has ’50/50 chance’ of becoming the first country in the world to have an approved coronavirus vaccine – and it could be NEXT WEEK, source says A decision on whether a vaccine will be approved could come by next week A Government source said it was ‘very likely’ Pfizer will be licensed first Said … Read more
Professor Karol Sikora, a consultant oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Buckingham Medical School, hails new coronavirus vaccines [File photo] As this extraordinary year enters its final weeks, the gloom is beginning to recede. Even in the darkness of winter, there is light at the end of the tunnel – and it is … Read more