The Covid vaccine wars: Pfizer now says its jab is 95% effective AND safe… days after Moderna’s breakthrough By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 11:56 GMT, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 12:04 GMT, 18 November 2020 Pfizer and BioNTech now claim their coronavirus vaccine is 95 per cent effective, upgrading an earlier … Read more
The UK could end up paying more than twice as much as the US for Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine after officials scrambled to iron out a last-minute deal yesterday. Moderna, based in Massachusetts, today confirmed it had agreed to supply Britain with five million doses of its jab starting in March 2021 if it’s approved by … Read more
A second coronavirus vaccine has been proven to work as US pharmaceutical company Moderna today revealed its jab is 94.5 per cent effective – but the UK hasn’t bought any of it. Early results from the company’s final stage of clinical trials bring another landmark success in the global race to end the pandemic after … Read more
Moderna Inc says it will know if its experimental coronavirus vaccine is effective at preventing people from contracting the disease by November. CEO Stéphane Bancel, speaking at The Wall Street Journal‘s annual Tech Live conference, said the company is waiting for interim results of its late-stage clinical trial. Provided the results are positive, Moderna could apply … Read more
Moderna will not be the company to fulfill President Donald Trump’s wish for a coronavirus vaccine by Election Day, the firm’s CEO said Wednesday. Stephane Bancel told the Financial Times that his firm would not have enough data from its late-stage trials to submit to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until November 25, at the … Read more
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine safely triggers ‘high levels’ of antibodies in older people that may protect them against COVID-19, early data shows Moderna tested low- and high-dose versions of its coronavirus vaccine in 40 volunteers ages 56 to 71 All participants developed antibodies to the highly-contagious virus Levels of the immune proteins were higher than those … Read more
Two doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine protected mice from infection for 13 WEEKS – and a single shot blocked the virus for 7 week Moderna’s vaccine tricks the body into producing some of the viral proteins, which the immune system recognizes and builds a response against mice Researchers gave mice two intramuscular doses, one-microgram each, three … Read more
Moderna’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. No study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at … Read more
Biotech firm Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine has an ’80 to 90% chance’ of FDA approval, claims CEO as they head into the first large US human trial of 30,000 people in July Stephen Bancel, the CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, believes the company’s coronavirus vaccine has an 80% to 90% chance of being approved by the FDA … Read more
America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, said he is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that one of several coronavirus vaccines being developed in the US will work to prevent infection, and be ready in ‘a reasonable period of time.’ Speaking at a The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Health Conference on Tuesday, Dr Fauci said that he … Read more