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Dr. Anthony Fauci was thrust into the media spotlight this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Joe Biden appears to want Fauci to stick around next year, too. Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and one of America’s leading infectious disease experts, will be Biden’s chief medical adviser when he […]
Moderna is asking regulators in the U.S. and Europe to fast-track emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, after tests showed it to be 94 percent effective in protecting users against the deadly virus. The two-shot vaccine was tested on a massive sample of 30,000 people. Over the course of the the study, 196 people overall […]
As the race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine continues, it appears that suspected North Korean hackers attempted to access AstraZeneca’s systems in the last weeks. Reuters reports that the hackers pretended to be job recruiters and used LinkedIn and WhatsApp to contact AstraZeneca employees with false job offers. Sources told the news outlet that the […]
A COVID-19 vaccine will reportedly be available to some Americans as early as Dec. 11. The Huffington Post reports that pharmaceutical company Pfizer filed its application with the FDA to request approval for emergency use of its vaccine with early data revealing that the treatment is 95 percent effective. Pfizer’s application will be reviewed by an […]
Pfizer, clearly not in the business of fucking around, said on Wednesday that the plan is now to submit a request to the FDA “within days” for an Emergency Use Authorization of its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate BNT162b2. The vaccine candidate, developed in collaboration with BioNTech, was reported earlier this month to have shown to have an efficacy rate […]
Though Donald Trump still hasn’t conceded the presidential election, reports are emerging that during a Friday press conference in the Rose Garden, he came very close to admitting his defeat while discussing a COVID-19 vaccine. Yamiche Alcindor tweeted, “Pres Trump came super close to acknowledging that the Biden administration may be in power by the […]
A federal health agency offered early access to coronavirus vaccines if Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and Christmas elves participated in a $250 million public service COVID-19 ad campaign— which is no more. Paid for by taxpayer money, the ads were set to promote the benefits of vaccinations with the goal to recruit celebrities to urge Americans to […]
Johnson & Johnson is temporarily pausing dosing in all its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial, which was detailed in a press release last month as a potentially “pivotal” global effort that would build on the successes of positive interim results from prior phases. In a statement shared on Monday, a […]
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the U.S. should be able to secure enough doses of COVID-19 vaccine to get the country back to “regular life” by the third quarter of 2021. That organization’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield, relayed his expectation to a Senate panel that vaccines should be ready […]
In a new interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci—head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—said that he is “not concerned” about political pressure when it comes to vaccine trials. The interview, published Tuesday, comes amid fears from many that Trump could prematurely push for a COVID-19 vaccine approval as part of an effort to make himself […]
