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New vaccine for Omicron: Pfizer and Biontech have begun production
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New vaccine for Omicron: Pfizer and Biontech have begun production

The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer have begun developing a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron coronavirus strain, for subsequent commercial usage. According to BioNTech CEO Ugura Sahina, the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron version has begun. Clinical studies on the vaccine will begin in late January. After…

Pfizer increases Paxlovid production capacity after Merck’s COVID tablet suffered unexpected effectiveness setback
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Pfizer increases Paxlovid production capacity after Merck’s COVID tablet suffered unexpected effectiveness setback

The effectiveness statistics for Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 medicine are now so promising that the Big Pharma giant is ramping up production even before the FDA issues an emergency use license. Paxlovid will now be produced in the amount of 80 million courses by the end of 2022 an increase from the originally planned 50 million…

Paxlovid: Pfizer drug has 89% efficacy against Covid-19
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Paxlovid: Pfizer drug has 89% efficacy against Covid-19

Preliminary results from an experimental study of Pfizer’s new drug for Covid-19 are very promising, with an 89% efficacy rate in reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death. This follows a product from Merck that will reduce risk among patients predisposed to a severe form of Covid-19. During ongoing clinical trials of Paxlovid, the drug…

Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna will increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines

Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna will increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines

Thanks to the adoption by the Committee for Medicines for Human (CHMP) belonging to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), two recommendations in April 2021 will increase the production capacity and supply of each of the companies producing vaccines against COVID-19. We are talking about the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Acceleration of production and a new production…

Pfizer tests the world’s first anti COVID-19 pill
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Pfizer tests the world’s first anti COVID-19 pill

Pfizer is launching a phase 1 trial of a new oral antiviral drug against SARS-COV-2. The drug for COVID-19 in a tablet, named PF-07321332, was developed in the US. Candidate for an effective drug to prevent COVID-19 Pfizer, which launched the first approved COVID-19 vaccine in the US, is now conducting a clinical trial of…

FDA: Pfizer is authorised to distribute the vaccine for COVID-19

FDA: Pfizer is authorised to distribute the vaccine for COVID-19

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus continues to spread around the world. However, there is one good message. Indeed, on Friday, the first company obtained official marketing authorisation for the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. This is about Pfizer and BioNTech preparation. FDA authorises the marketing of the first vaccine for COVID-19 “On 11 December 2020, the…

COVID-19: Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine – is it a breakthrough?

COVID-19: Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine – is it a breakthrough?

On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech reported that the COVID-19 vaccine they are working on is over 90% effective. At that time, the world was overwhelmed with enthusiasm. On Wednesday, the EC signed an agreement with these companies to purchase 300 million doses of vaccine. So can we expect the pandemic to end soon? Pfizer and…

Pfizer and BioNTech: positive results of COVID-19 vaccine tests
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Pfizer and BioNTech: positive results of COVID-19 vaccine tests

The U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in a statement that the first test of COVID-19 vaccine developed in cooperation with the German biotechnology company BioNTech has been completed. Currently, there are four types of Pfizer vaccine for Sars-Cov-2 in the testing phase. One of them will be commercially available. World: ongoing work on COVID-19 vaccine…

Paxlovid approved as first oral drug for COVID-19
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Paxlovid approved as first oral drug for COVID-19

Paxlovid, a Pfizer-developed anti-covid medicine that is the first anti-covid treatment licensed in the United States in oral tablet form, received emergency approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Paxlovid was licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in London shortly after. The first supply of the medication recently arrived…

Fewer Poles vaccinated with the third dose – a mistake of vaccination centres ?

Fewer Poles vaccinated with the third dose – a mistake of vaccination centres ?

The Ministry of Health explained that the decreasing number of those vaccinated with the third dose, in the daily statistics on COVID-19 vaccinations, is related to the correction of vaccination cards by the vaccination points. It has been discovered that booster injections are entered as the “third dose” instead of booster. Specifically, as the ministry communicated: “Despite the information…