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While Kanye West won’t force attendees of his next Donda listening event to be vaccinated against COVID-19, fans will be able to get inoculated on-site if they choose. As reported by TMZ, a spokesperson for Chicago’s Soldier Field said they will offer more than 1,500 doses for interested attendees. The doses offered will be a split between the […]
A 23-year-old woman in Italy was accidentally given six doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday morning. She has since been discharged from the hospital after personnel monitored her for potentially adverse reactions. The patient had no underlying conditions and is said to be in “good health.” Her hospital stay lasted 24 hours. She was let […]
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people in the United States between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, CNN reports. An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review the data provided by Pfizer, […]
On Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced the initiation of the full FDA approval application process for its COVID-19 vaccine, saying data to support what’s called a Biologics License Application would be submitted on a rolling basis in the coming weeks. “We are proud of the tremendous progress we’ve made since December in delivering vaccines to […]
In what Twitter users are already calling “the Arnold Palmer,” a New Hampshire man experienced something of a virus mix-up Tuesday morning, getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose in place of what was supposed to be a second Moderna dose. The man, Craig Richards, said he initially got his first dose of Pfizer in March at the same […]
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has suggested that it’s “likely” people will be needing a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of being fully vaccinated. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, like most other COVID-19 vaccines with the exception of Johnson & Johnson, requires two shots. Bourla has suggested that people might have to get vaccinated against […]
Protection following the second dose of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine lasts at least six months, per an updated analysis of observations made in a phase 3 study. Pfizer announced these latest findings in a news release on Thursday, noting that the new stats on its COVID-19 vaccine will soon be shared with global regulatory agencies. […]
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company and its partner BioNTech announced on Wednesday, is highly effective in people as young as 12 years old. Currently, the vaccine has been approved for use in those 16 years of age and up. In the months ahead, however, a key part of continuing the national vaccine rollout […]
Pfizer has kicked off work on an early-stage clinical trial of an oral COVID-19 antiviral therapeutic. The company said on Tuesday that it was progressing to multiple ascending doses after completing the dosing of single ascending doses in a phase 1 study of adults to look into the safety and tolerability of what they describe […]
Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, the largest healthcare provider in Israel, has reported a drop of 94 percent of symptomatic COVID-19 infections from a group of 600,000 people who have gotten both of the necessary doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to Reuters. HMO Clalit covers more than half of Israel’s population, and also reported that […]
