Vaccination teams are braced to go into care homes to give the most vulnerable the Covid jab by the end of the week. GPs are also due to start administering the Pfizer vaccine from today at 280 local centres across the UK. It means those at greatest risk will finally get the protection they need … Read more
Dozens of GP surgeries have decided against taking part in the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine roll-out due to ‘concerns their workloads are already too heavy,’ reports claim today. Around 100,000 Britons will reportedly have to go elsewhere for their Covid-19 inoculations as the second stage of the UK’s mass vaccination programme begins in local GP practices next week. … Read more
Donald Trump hailed the FDA’s approval of the coronavirus vaccine as a ‘medical miracle’ on Friday evening – and said the drug will ‘save millions of lives and end the pandemic once and for all’. Millions of doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are being shipped out across the US, with the first vaccinations due to … Read more
US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for $2.6 billion bringing its total stock from the firm to 200 million after the Trump administration turned down its chance to buy extra doses of Pfizer’s shot The US government exercised its option to buy another 100 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine for about … Read more
Wall Street projects Pfizer and Moderna will rake in $32 BILLION in COVID-19 vaccine sales in 2021 alone – while Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vow to distribute their jabs at no profit Analysts project Pfizer and Moderna will rake in a combined $32 billion next year That is on top of an estimated $975 million … Read more
The FDA will approve Pfizer’s COVID vaccine tonight, hours after being slammed by Trump for taking so long to get it off the ground. According to anonymous sources cited by The New York Times, staffers are now rushing to get the paperwork complete and it’ll be done by the end of the day. Earlier, Trump … Read more
President Donald Trump raged at the FDA for taking so long to approve Pfizer’s COVID vaccine on Friday morning and ordered them to ‘stop playing games and start saving lives’ as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said official approval may still take ‘a couple of days’. A panel of 23 independent scientists voted … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory panel has voted to give Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine emergency approval. It’s the last crucial decision before FDA authorizes the shot to be given to Americans, a historic step toward controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., which set another grim record with more than 3,000 deaths … Read more
Scientists on the FDA’s COVID vaccine advisory committee are finally discussing whether or not to approve it and are questioning how long it will protect people for against the virus and whether or not trial participants who were given a placebo should receive it. The independent advisory committee is meeting today to discuss the findings of … Read more
Pregnant women in the US will likely have to wait to receive Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine after it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show pregnant COVID-19 patients are twice as likely to be admitted to ICUs and three times more likely to … Read more