Pharmacies add freezers, train staff to handle COVID-19 vaccination drive

29 November 2020 - Many supermarkets have offered customers flu shots for years, but COVID-19 vaccine distribution will require more coordination ...

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Deploying big data to determine how well vaccines work

29 November 2020 - As the initial rollout starts, it’s time to start planning a registry to monitor health outcomes. ...

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America will be the first country to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine

28 November 2020 - Here is how the federal government and states plan to do it. ...

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After admitting mistake, AstraZeneca faces difficult questions about its vaccine

25 November 2020 - Some trial participants only got a partial dose of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. Experts said the company’s spotty disclosures ...

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AstraZeneca gears up to vaccinate the world against COVID-19

24 November 2020 - Among the front-runners racing to deliver a COVID-19 shot, has the least vaccine experience. But it has ...

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Third major COVID-19 vaccine shown to be effective and cheaper

24 November 2020 - Drugmaker AstraZeneca said late-stage trials showed its COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective, buoying the prospects of a ...

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Pfizer vaccine distribution could kick off within weeks pending FDA approval, Azar says

24 November 2020 - A FDA panel will meet on 10 December to consider Pfizer’s emergency use authorisation application for its ...

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Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from COVID vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park’

23 November 2020 - The CDC must be transparent about the side effects people may experience after getting their first shot ...

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Success for a third—and perhaps most important—COVID-19 vaccine

23 November 2020 - The AstraZeneca-Oxford jab is likely to be widely used around the world. ...

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Merck submits applications for licensure of V114, the company’s investigational 15 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, for use in adults to the US FDA and EMA

23 November 2020 - Merck today announced the company has submitted applications to the US FDA and EMA for licensure of ...

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COVID-19 shots could reach first Americans by mid-December, top health official says

23 November 2020 - U.S. health care workers and others recommended for the nation’s first COVID-19 inoculations could start getting shots ...

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Politics, science and the remarkable race for a coronavirus vaccine

21 November 2020 - The furious race to develop a coronavirus vaccine played out against a presidential election, between a pharmaceutical ...

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Pfizer and BioNTech to submit emergency use authorisation request today to the U.S. FDA for COVID-19 vaccine

20 November 2020 - In addition to today’s submission to the FDA, the companies have already initiated rolling submissions across the ...

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Pfizer will seek regulatory review ‘within days’ for its vaccine

18 November 2020 - The coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and German biotechnology firm BioNTech is 95% effective at ...

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The vaccines will probably work. Making them fast will be the hard part.

18 November 2020 - Front-runners in the coronavirus vaccine race won’t make nearly as many doses this year as were predicted, ...

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