Moderna will today submit their Covid-19 vaccine for emergency approval after final results from trials show it is 94.1 per cent effective at preventing infections and the UK is set to approve Pfizer‘s jab ‘within days’. Final results from the companies stage 3 trials mark a landmark success for the vaccine, with only 11 out … Read more
Covid vaccines are like buses. You wait all year for one, and then three come along at once. OK, so Christmas cracker jokes aside (is it too early? I don’t think so) by now we all know the good news. Last week it was announced that Oxford University’s jab had come good: it prevents the … Read more
Little-known British pharmaceutical executive working on Covid vaccine sees his wealth catapulted to more than $100m after value of his shares rocket By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 28 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 28 November 2020 A little-known British pharmaceutical executive working on a Covid vaccine has seen his … Read more
A vocal critic of the Government’s tiered lockdown system has been put in charge of the UK’s vaccine rollout. Stratford-On-Avon MP Nadhim Zahawi has been temporarily appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Health Department. The role – which is set to last until next Summer at the earliest – will involve him deploying the eagerly-awaited … Read more
Hospitals in England have been told to prepare for the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine in as soon as 10 days, it has been reported, with NHS staff first in line to receive it. According to The Guardian, hospitals could receive the first deliveries of the vaccine created by Pfizer/BioNTech between December 7 and December … Read more
The fattest people in the UK will be prioritised over millions of Britons aged 50 to 65 for a coronavirus vaccine, Government guidance has confirmed. Official advice says morbidly obese people should be included in the ‘at-risk’ adult group and get access ahead of everyone under 65. One in eight adults in the UK are classed … Read more
Downing Street’s ‘Union Unit asked for the UK flag to be printed on doses of the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine’ as part of a plan to counter calls for Scottish independence Number 10’s Union Unit was set up to counter calls for Scottish independence It is said to have asked for the Union flag to … Read more
North Korean hackers target British Covid-19 vaccine producer AstraZeneca with multiple attempts to access staff computers Hackers posed as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach staff They sent documents laced with code to gain access to victims’ computers The hacking attempts are not thought to have been successful, sources say AstraZeneca is racing to deploy … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has asked the UK’s drugs regulator to ‘understand the data’ coming out of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine trial as it decides whether to approve the jab for public use. Government officials last night asked the MHRA to consider giving emergency approval for the jab so that it could be given out from … Read more
Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, refused to back Oxford’s vaccine The Chief Medical Officer has dodged giving the AstraZeneca jab his full backing as the company revealed it will run a new Oxford vaccine trial. Chris Whitty refused to back the injection when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing Street … Read more