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China’s First mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Preps to Enter Final Stage Trials, Abogen CEO Says
firstwordpharma
June 17, 2021
Suzhou Abogen Biosciences’ mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is expected to start Phase III tests in overseas countries later this month, said CEO Ying Bo, Yicai Global reported.
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Brazil to buy single-shot Chinese COVID-19 vaccine
PharmaSources
June 17, 2021
According to a negotiation document, Brazil plans to purchase 60 million doses of the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's CanSino Biologics for delivery in the third and fourth quarters of this year, as reported by NASDAQ.
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eTrueNorth Offers Five Tips for Travel-related COVID Testing
prnewswire
June 17, 2021
eTrueNorth is one of the largest providers of COVID-19 tests to Americans.
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Third Dose of COVID Vaccine Boosts Protection in Transplant Recipients
drugs
June 16, 2021
Researchers say an extra dose of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines may improve immune system protection for organ transplant patients, a group that's so far responded poorly to two-dose vaccines.
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Direct Relief Facilitates Donations of 1.75 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Mexico, Belize, Bolivia and Paraguay
firstwordpharma
June 16, 2021
The governments of both the United States and Mexico turned to Direct Relief to facilitate international deliveries of more than 1.75 million shots of coronavirus vaccine between Saturday and today.
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Why Vaccinated Travelers Should Still Buy Travel Insurance according to Squaremouth
prnewswire
June 16, 2021
Most travelers who had trips impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic weren't forced to cancel their trips due to contracting the virus, according to travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth.
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Pfizer ready to make COVID vaccines for new variants, CEO says
firstwordpharma
June 15, 2021
Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla is expressing confidence about the efficacy of his company's COVID-19 vaccine against the Delta variant, which was first detected in India, as reported by MSN.
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Emergent Pledges FDA Improvements at Troubled Vaccine Plant
firstwordpharma
June 15, 2021
Emergent BioSolutions is promising the FDA a series of fixes in response to an inspection that led to production stopping at the company's Bayview facility in Baltimore, which had been making Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, reported Bloomberg.
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Good News, Bad News From Alzheimer's Vaccine Trial
drugs
June 15, 2021
An experimental Alzheimer's vaccine appears to safely clear abnormal tau protein from the brain, but it's not yet clear whether the shot will be able to save brain function.
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Italy's AIFA approves using different vaccine for second dose after AstraZeneca jab
firstwordpharma
June 15, 2021
Italy's medicine agency AIFA said Italians under the age of 60 who received a first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria can be given a different vaccine when they get their second dose, as reported in Yahoo!News.