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Health 12 August 2020 By Graham Lawton Who will get a vaccine, and when, according to the World Health Organization’s strategyKirsty Wigglesworth/AP/Shutterstock IT IS August 2021, and the moment the world has been waiting for has finally arrived. After many false dawns, a vaccine against covid-19 has passed all the tests and is ready to…

Health 11 August 2020 By Alice Klein Respiratory syncytial virus particles (blue) in human lung cellsNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A vaccine that protects against one of the main common cold viruses has been shown to be safe and effective in a clinical trial and could be…

Source of the BioNTech graphic: Wikipedia. BioNTech SE (BNTX) is a Germany-based biotechnology company which has teamed up with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the market. There are no market or economic precedents for this pandemic or for how to estimate a value for a successful COVID-19 vaccine, or how to estimate…

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' Innovation Center, a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where components for a potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are being developed, in Morrrisville, North Carolina, U.S., July 27, 2020.Carlos Barria | ReutersThe hunt is on for a vaccine for Covid-19, which has…

By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Thursday kicked off U.S. human safety trials for its COVID-19 vaccine after releasing details of a study in monkeys that showed its best-performing vaccine candidate offered strong protection in a single dose.When exposed to the virus, six out of six animals who got the…