COVID-19

Celsion announced results from its PLACCINE DNA vaccine platform that showed it produced antibodies and cytotoxic T-cell response specific to the spike antigen of SARS-CoV-2.
The Mu variation is the fifth strain to be designated as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization.
Heading into the Labor Day weekend in the U.S., there’s still plenty of COVID-19 news. Here’s a look.
Pfizer dosed its first patients in a Phase III trial assessing a single dose of its investigational RSV bivalent prefusion F subunit vaccine candidate (RSVpreF) in adults ages 60 and above.
A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found that the Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca or Moderna vaccines resulted in a drop in “long-haul” COVID-19 by 50%.
FDA
Mesoblast shares dropped on the last day of August 2021 after it was told that its candidate COVID-19 treatment needs to undergo another trial to be green-lit for emergency approval by the FDA.
New data is coming out every day about COVID-19 and the body’s response to vaccines. Here’s a look at some of the top stories.
The study of Molnupiravir will assess 1,300 adult participants 18 and over who cohabitate with someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus and is symptomatic.
Belgium researchers compared the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines and found that the Moderna jabs generated twice the antibodies than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
While the speed of science is both lauded and mistrusted by near-equal parts of the population, the over 22 million Americans with cancer are now saying, “Wait, what about us?”
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