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Moderna’s vaccine has become the second approved Coronavirus vaccine after Pfizer-BioNTech. The green light was granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Thursday (Dec 17). The 20-0 with one abstention decision, delivered by the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, came exactly 1-week after Pfizer got its approval. […]
... written on Dec 18 2020On Friday, as expected, the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. The authorization, however, was plagued with news that White House Chief-of-Staff, Mark Meadows, told the FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to authorize Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine on Friday itself – or prepares to resign. […]
... written on Dec 14 2020Is vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech safe and effective as claimed? According to the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration), their analysis found the vaccine to be 95% effective more than 7 days after the second dose. Between 2 to 7 days after the second dose, the efficacy is 90.5%. The first […]
... written on Dec 10 2020Britain became the first western country to authorize the use of Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. The approval granted by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on December 1 was at lightning speed – just 3 weeks after Pfizer published the first data from its Phase-3 clinical trial. Pfizer claims its vaccine has 95% […]
... written on Dec 03 2020When British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced on Monday that it too has developed a Covid-19 vaccine, celebration exploded – from the stock markets to lower and middle-income countries. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna’s effectiveness of 95% and 94.5% respectively, AstraZeneca’s vaccine has an average efficacy of 70%. The number may sound inferior. But depending on dosage, the […]
... written on Nov 26 2020Following Coronavirus vaccines revealed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna after encouraging late-stage trial results, British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced on Monday that it too has developed a Covid-19 vaccine. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna’s effectiveness of 95% and 94.5%, respectively, AstraZeneca’s vaccine has an average efficacy of 70%. However, depending on dosage, the latest vaccine’s effectiveness could […]
... written on Nov 23 2020If you think an effective vaccine for Covid-19 will be available before Christmas this year, you would be disappointed. Unless you don’t mind trying Russian-developed vaccine – “Sputnik V” – which is already available, a United States FDA-approved vaccine won’t happen until next year. The virus is still spreading rapidly, with over 1-million deaths and […]
... written on Oct 15 2020Trump, 74, and first lady Melania Trump, 50, have both tested positive for Covid-19. A feverish and fatigued President Trump was flown to a military hospital – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – on Friday night where he is being given Remdesivir therapy. Now there’s concern that the White House or Trump might have […]
... written on Oct 04 2020As expected, Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country has become the first country in the world to approve a Coronavirus vaccine fails to win applause. The Russian president announced the great news on Tuesday – “As far as I know, a vaccine against a new Coronavirus infection has been registered this morning, for the first […]
... written on Aug 13 2020When President Trump signed into law a Coronavirus relief package on March 27, 2020, called the Federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program, offered through the federal CARES Act, the US$2.2 trillion stimulus package was the largest in the history of the United States. The law surpassed Obama’s US$800 billion package following the 2008 financial […]
... written on May 27 2020
