FTSE 100 climbs another 25.9 points to 6,206.8 after Pfizer’s vaccine news

FTSE 100 climbs another 25.9 points to 6,206.8 after Pfizer’s vaccine announcement set market soaring to three-month high yesterday The FTSE 100 climbed some 22.58 points to 6208.87 in trading this morning IAG, EasyJet and Rolls-Royce adding to gains amid news of coronavirus vaccine  Britain’s bombed out stocks have staged a dramatic recovery after Pfizer … Read more

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine ‘must be stored at MINUS 70C in special suitcases’

DOES THE ANNOUNCEMENT MEAN A VACCINE IS READY? Not quite yet. Pfizer has released preliminary findings that suggests its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. The vaccine has been tested on nearly 44,000 people in six different countries and no safety concerns have been raised so far. Pfizer is now planning … Read more

Global shares soar after Pfizer’s vaccine breakthrough

Global shares soar after vaccine breakthrough: Rolls-Royce and British Airways owner IAG lead the FTSE 100 back above the 6,000 mark By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 Britain’s bombed out stocks staged a dramatic recovery yesterday after Pfizer declared it has … Read more

Don Jr. leads suspicion over the timing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 ‘breakthrough’

Donald Trump Jr. has cast suspicion over the timing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘breakthrough’ which was announced on Monday two days after the election was called for Biden.  Pfizer revealed on Monday that its vaccine was 90 percent effective among study participants and that it would produce 1.3billion doses- enough to treat 650million people – … Read more

Pfizer’s shot left fewer than half of participants with side effects

A second experimental coronavirus vaccine being tested by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE showed promising results. The two companies say their second jab produced just as many antibodies in volunteers as their first jab did, but had far fewer side effects. Results published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine … Read more

Trump hints that PFIZER’s coronavirus vaccine could be first approved

Trump hints that PFIZER’s coronavirus vaccine could be the first to be approved in the US with Johnson & Johnson’s coming ‘a little later’ President Trump said in Moonday Fox interview that Pfizer’s vaccine is ‘doing really well’  His vaccine czar, Dr Moncef Slaoui said that the most ‘susceptible’ Americans could get COVID-19 shots by … Read more

Coronavirus: Pfizer’s second vaccine has fewer side effects

Pfizer’s second experimental coronavirus vaccine left HALF as many people with side effects compared to its first in a promising sign for a safe shot Both vaccines use part of the coronavirus’s genetic code. but B1 codes for part of the protein the virus uses to infect cells and B2 codes for the entire protein … Read more