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Pfizer to Ask for Vaccine Authorization for Children Under 5
The Pfizer corporation, the first pharmaceutical firm to have a vaccine against the coronavirus, is expected to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration to authorize its inoculation for children under the age of 5.
At a time when...
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Pfizer’s Bourla: Frequent Covid Boosters “Not a Good Scenario”
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Saturday said people getting COVID-19 booster shots every four to five months is "not a good scenario" and argued that an annual vaccine would be a better approach to fighting the virus.
Bourla told the...
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Fourth Shot Will be Needed as Booster Wanes: Moderna CEO
A fourth shot will be needed as the power of the booster wanes, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel stated on Thursday while addressing a Goldman Sachs healthcare conference.
His comments were the first such definitive statement by Moderna regarding the need...
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Pfizer to Develop MRNA Shingles Vaccine with BioNTech
Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Wednesday that they will work together to develop an MRNA vaccine for the viral infection called shingles.
The pharmaceutical companies worked together to create the world's first fully-approved MRNA vaccine for the coronavirus in 2020.
They...
Business
Albert Bourla Named CEO of the Year
CNN Business has named Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, a Thessaloniki native who left Greece at the age of 34 to pursue a career in the pharmaceuticals industry, as the CEO of the year.
CNN says that Bourla was their choice...
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US Health Regulator Approves Pfizer Covid-19 Pill
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer's Covid-19 pill for use on Wednesday. Pfizer filed for U.S. authorization of the the antiviral Covid-19 pill in late November.
The pill, called Paxlovid, can now be prescribed by doctors for high-risk...
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CDC Recommends Moderna and Pfizer Over Johnson & Johnson
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines over Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.
The CDC's advisers pointed to the mounting evidence that the company's vaccine has the potential to set off a...
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Doctor Says Vaccines’ Creation “Like Putting Man on the Moon”
After exactly one year after Americans began receiving vaccines against the coronavirus, it is time to take stock and look at some sobering numbers as the death toll in the country tops 800,000.
Just one year ago, on December 14,...
Medicine
Pfizer CEO Bourla Says Fourth Dose May Come Sooner Than Expected
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Thursday that we may need a fourth vaccine dose "faster" in order to combat the omicron variant of Covid-19.
Bourla had previously said that he anticipated the fourth shot to only be necessary...
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Pfizer Says Three Shots Neutralize Omicron Variant
Officials from Pfizer and BioNTech, the firms that produced the very first coronavirus vaccine, said that three inoculations of their product "neutralized" the omicron variant in new laboratory tests.
They then announced that they could deliver a reformulated vaccine in...