Volunteers who were the first in the world to be given Pfizer’s Covid vaccine — which Britain today approved for mass roll-out — have compared the jab’s side effects to a ‘severe hangover’. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first dose left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab but that her symptoms were … Read more
The market narrative changed this week after Pfizer and its partner BioNTech went public with a Covid-19 vaccine candidate was effective in 90 per cent of cases. Approval for the drug will be sought next week, which doesn’t mean the pandemic is over, though the knee-jerk reaction of London’s traders seemed to suggest this was … Read more
Pfizer’s top scientist has said it is already working on a powder form of its breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine that could solve its biggest problem around freezing the jab. Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten told Business Insider Monday a second version of the vaccine is already being planned and could be available next year. The pharma giant … Read more
DOES THE ANNOUNCEMENT MEAN A VACCINE IS READY? Not quite yet. Pfizer has released preliminary findings that suggests its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. The vaccine has been tested on nearly 44,000 people in six different countries and no safety concerns have been raised so far. Pfizer is now planning … Read more
Global shares soar after vaccine breakthrough: Rolls-Royce and British Airways owner IAG lead the FTSE 100 back above the 6,000 mark By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 Britain’s bombed out stocks staged a dramatic recovery yesterday after Pfizer declared it has … Read more
Donald Trump Jr. has cast suspicion over the timing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘breakthrough’ which was announced on Monday two days after the election was called for Biden. Pfizer revealed on Monday that its vaccine was 90 percent effective among study participants and that it would produce 1.3billion doses- enough to treat 650million people – … Read more
Trump hints that PFIZER’s coronavirus vaccine could be the first to be approved in the US with Johnson & Johnson’s coming ‘a little later’ President Trump said in Moonday Fox interview that Pfizer’s vaccine is ‘doing really well’ His vaccine czar, Dr Moncef Slaoui said that the most ‘susceptible’ Americans could get COVID-19 shots by … Read more
Pfizer’s second experimental coronavirus vaccine left HALF as many people with side effects compared to its first in a promising sign for a safe shot Both vaccines use part of the coronavirus’s genetic code. but B1 codes for part of the protein the virus uses to infect cells and B2 codes for the entire protein … Read more