Tag: Pfizer

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  US launches mass-inoculation campaign as FDA approves the Pfizer vaccine

  

  United States health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Panel of US FDA advisers votes to endorse emergency use of Pfizer vaccine

  

  A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday (Dec 10) voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot for a nation that has lost more than 285,000 lives to Covid-19.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Cyber-attack on EU medicines' regulator accesses crucial Pfizer vaccines info

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to the development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. The European Medicines Agency, EMA, which assesses medicines and vaccines for the EU said hours earlier it had been targeted in a cyber attack.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  UK medicine regulator advises people with allergic reactions to avoid the Pfizer vaccines

  

  Britain's medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effects on the first day of rollout.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 14:44 UTC

  British granny 90, first person to receive the Pfizer Covid 19 vaccine: “Go for it”

  

  Ms Margaret Keenan, the 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial in Britain on Tuesday, has a message for others: “Go for it” to beat the devastating disease.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  WHO receives data from the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

  

  The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had received data from Pfizer and BioNTech on the Covid-19 vaccine and was reviewing it for “possible listing for emergency use”, a benchmark for countries to authorize national use.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  PM Johnson admits to be vaccinated on television show, “but will not jump the queue”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson might be persuaded to take a COVID-19 vaccination on television to show it is safe but he would not have one before those in greater need, his press secretary said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  US expects to have immunized 100 million people against Covid-19 by March

  

  The United States hopes to have immunized 100 million people against Covid-19 by the end of February, a top official said on Wednesday, which is approximately 40% of the country's adult population.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 13:45 UTC

  UK steps forward and approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for rollout ‘next week’

  

  The United Kingdom steps forward the United States and Europe and became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use as it announced on Wednesday a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug from next week.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine expected to be administered in Mexico in mid December

  

  Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine could start being administered in Mexico in mid-December if it is approved by the country’s health regulator, Mexico’s foreign minister announced