Tag: COVID-19 vaccine

FDA and Scientists Say 'No' to Trump Pandemic Instructions https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1318733786448908288?s=20 Health Editor's Note: As VT has reported, Trump has openly accused the FDA of trying to...

The administration proposed labeling a Covid-19 vaccine authorization a ‘pre-licensure,’ which FDA says would undermine its procedures.

Because of the rapid global spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the high mortality rate, development of a vaccine is an urgent task.

None of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a “clear signal” of efficacy at the level of at least 50% sought by the WHO

Yea, get your scientific information from the news media!

The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved.

Re-infection has raised fears about the efficacy of potential vaccines against the virus

Tracking 200 experimental vaccines to combat COVID-19

Russia Claims They are Being Negatively Targeted for Their COVID-19 Vaccine. https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1296478624275738624?s=20 Health Editor's Note: The idea that there is an "information war" against the Russian...

Experts have voiced unease over Moscow's rapid approval process for the vaccine.

OWS aims to deliver up to 300 million doses of a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 in early 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (collectively known as countermeasures).

Massive testing effort involving more than 100,000 volunteers and a half dozen or so of the most promising vaccine candidates in an effort to deliver a safe and effective one by the end of 2020.

Trial of 30,000 individuals

According to the World Health Organization’s latest table of COVID-19 vaccines, 124 candidates are at various stages of development with eight different technologies, or platforms.

More than $1bn US BARDA investment to support development and production of the vaccine

The vaccine was developed at the University of Oxford Jenner Institute.

The authors emphasize that developing COVID-19 vaccines will require unprecedented cooperation from governments, academic institutions, industry, and global philanthropic partners

Oxford University leaps ahead in coronavirus vaccine