Infectious disease
With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout underway and a renewed sense of hope stemming from an aggressive vaccine dispersal plan, a common question has begun to emerge.
In an editorial letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, Jeff Shuren, M.D., the FDA’s device center director, and the agency’s in vitro diagnostics chief Timothy Stenzel, M.D., Ph.D., wrote that the agency planned to revisit their policy on antibody testing after it had authorized several serology tests.
In 2020, Vir and GlaxoSmithKline partnered to develop strategies against COVID-19. The two companies have expanded that collaboration to include work into new treatments for influenza and other respiratory viruses.
As COVID-19 vaccine rollouts intensify across the country, employers across all industries are trying to decide whether they should implement a mandatory vaccine policy before they let employees back into the office.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine data has once again been threatened by hackers. The alleged theft of intellectual property has been laid at the feet of North Korea’s government.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for February 16, 2021.
The WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), a prerequisite for COVAX Facility vaccine supply, evaluates the safety, quality, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. As such, today’s approval allows the vaccine to be used by agencies and NGOs around the world.
Early results from University of Oxford’s RECOVERY trial showed Roche’s immunosuppressant Actemra reduced deaths and the need for mechanical ventilation in severe COVID patients.
It was a busy week for clinical trial announcements and news. Here’s a look.
With billions invested in R&D over the past year to find vaccines and therapies for the novel coronavirus, a few select life sciences companies and academic institutions are working on the hypothesis that intranasal vaccines and therapies could be key to stopping COVID-19 in its tracks, and provide greater protection against transmission of COVID-19.
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