The vaccine billionaires’ fortune grows: Inventor of Biontech jab adds $4bn to his fortune while his investors make EIGHT BILLION as countries scramble to inoculate populations Ugur Sahin has seen his wealth grow as share prices in German biotech firm soar Investors Thomas and Andreas Strungmann have profited even more as a result Share prices … Read more
Josie Gibson got into a Twitter spat on Thursday after she was accused of spreading ‘dangerous misinformation’ abut Pfizer/BioNTech’s breakthrough coronavirus vaccine. The This Morning presenter, 35, shared an article exploring reports that two NHS staff suffered an ‘anaphylactoid reaction’ just after being immunised on Tuesday. Within 24 hours of the biggest-ever mass vaccination programme … Read more
GPs have been told they need to monitor patients given Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for at least 15 minutes after injection – which could scupper Government plans to inoculate a million Brits a week by next year. Britain’s medical watchdog issued the new advice to vaccination centres and doctors’ surgeries today after three people vaccinated on … Read more
Pregnant women will not be offered Pfizer‘s breakthrough coronavirus vaccine due to a lack of evidence, experts have said. The UK Government has issued guidelines making it clear mothers-to-be should not be inoculated until after they’ve given birth. Women who think they might be pregnant are urged to delay vaccination until they are certain they … Read more
What type of vaccine is this? The jab is known as a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine. Conventional vaccines are produced using weakened forms of the virus, but mRNAs use only the virus’s genetic code. An mRNA vaccine is injected into the body where it enters cells and tells them to create antigens. These antigens are … Read more
What happened with the Pfizer vaccine and is it a cause for concern? As watchdog issues warning after NHS staff have adverse reaction to Covid-19 jab, we answer your questions about the inoculation By Victoria Allen for the Daily Mail Published: 00:59 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 00:59 GMT, 10 December 2020 What happened … Read more
The severe allergic reactions suffered by two UK health care workers who got Pfizer‘s coronavirus vaccine yesterday are ‘of some concern,’ Dr Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday afternoon. During a Harvard University forum hosted by CNN‘s Dr Sanjay Gupta, Dr Fauci did not seem particularly shocked that these reactions occurred, but he did warn that … Read more
A 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to have Pfizer‘s coronavirus jab has urged sceptics to get the vaccine after being discharged from hospital. V-Day hero Margaret Keenan, from Coventry, made history on Tuesday by becoming the first person to receive the injection outside of medical trials. Mrs Keenan hailed it as a … Read more
Canada has become just the second country in the world to approve Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, and may start immunizing residents as early as next week. On Wednesday, the country’s health regulator, Health Canada, posted on its website that it had authorized the jab after a two-month independent review on safety and efficacy. ‘Canadians can … Read more
A 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to have Pfizer‘s coronavirus jab has urged sceptics to get the vaccine after being discharged from hospital. V-Day hero Margaret Keenan, from Coventry, made history on Tuesday by becoming the first person to receive the injection outside of medical trials. Mrs Keenan hailed it as a … Read more