Kristen Choi (pictured), an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at UCLA said she experienced several side effects after taking the second of two shots of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine including pain at the injection side, headache, nausea and a fever of 104.9F A nurse who took part in Pfizer Inc’s late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial … Read more
Business Secretary Alok Sharma today admitted only ‘some’ of the 800,000 shots are already in the UK Fears Britain won’t get any more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s approved coronavirus vaccine before New Year may have prompted officials to bump frontline NHS staff down the queue, with care home residents now expected to begin receiving their jabs … Read more
Britain will receive its first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine within hours after the UK became the first country in the world to approve the jab. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, confirmed Britain’s first shipment — which left Pfizer’s Belgian manufacturing plant in lorries last night — will arrive ‘very shortly’, with … Read more
Volunteers who were the first in the world to be given Pfizer’s Covid vaccine — which Britain today approved for mass roll-out — have compared the jab’s side effects to a ‘severe hangover’. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first dose left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab but that her symptoms were … Read more
Britain’s regulators today approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, paving the way for mass-vaccination to start within days. Officials said the jab will be made available ‘from next week’ as Health Secretary Matt Hancock declared the end of the pandemic was now ‘in sight’. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get … Read more
Britain expects to start rolling out the Pfizer vaccine just before Christmas if it is declared safe and effective, Matt Hancock said Matt Hancock today claimed Britain is ‘working very closely’ with Pfizer to roll out the drug giant’s breakthrough Covid vaccine from the start of December. The Health Secretary said the UK would be … Read more
The market narrative changed this week after Pfizer and its partner BioNTech went public with a Covid-19 vaccine candidate was effective in 90 per cent of cases. Approval for the drug will be sought next week, which doesn’t mean the pandemic is over, though the knee-jerk reaction of London’s traders seemed to suggest this was … Read more
Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine could cost Britain £588million and wind up being seven times more expensive per dose than the one being developed by Oxford University. The jab, which the company this week claimed is 90 per cent effective and could be approved by regulators within weeks, is likely to cost £15 per dose and must … Read more
Pfizer’s top scientist has said it is already working on a powder form of its breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine that could solve the storage problems of the liquid form, which has to be kept at freezing temperatures Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten told Business Insider Monday a second version of the vaccine is already being planned … Read more
Volunteers on the Pfizer vaccine trial have compared the jabs side effects to a ‘severe hangover’ and said it left them with headaches, fever and muscle aches similar to the flu vaccine. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first jab left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab, but after the second the symptoms … Read more