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23 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The welcome news that two companies, Pfizer and Moderna, have apparently created safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 raises immediate questions about distribution. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 5:50 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“…While the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna have announced promising updates on the vaccines they are developing, President-elect Joseph R. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 10:58 am by Anna Salvatore
Unlike vaccines by the drug giants Pfizer and Moderna, it doesn’t need to be stored in uber-cold refrigerators, which would make it easier to distribute across the U.S. and the world. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 8:29 pm by Ilya Somin
Perhaps the best news since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic is that two highly effective vaccines are about to become available: one developed by Pfizer in partnership with the German firm BioNTech and one by Moderna. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 8:03 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are likely to be the first to win FDA approval, in particular rely heavily on two fundamental discoveries that emerged from federally funded research: the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, and the concept of RNA modification, first developed by Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 11:59 am
Count us as someone who will advocate for a hybrid in-person-Zoom system when everyone gets the Pfizer vaccine. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 7:04 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Sherkow, and Lisa Larrimore OuellettePromising results for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have been the most exciting COVID-19 innovation news in the past few weeks. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 9:48 am by Anna Salvatore
  Pfizer is seeking permission from U.S. government regulators to begin distributing its vaccine early, writes the Associated Press. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 5:30 am by Gene Takagi
” NY Times“The coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and German biotechnology firm BioNTech is 95 percent effective at preventing illness, according to an analysis performed as a trial of the experimental shot reached its endpoint. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 9:13 am by Brian Leiter
Between Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine, it looks like about 6-7% of the U.S. population may get vaccinated before the end of the year, which is better than nothing of course. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 5:35 am by Associated Press
The announcement, just a week after Pfizer first revealed promising preliminary results, comes as the company is preparing within days to formally ask U.S. ... [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 3:26 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Pfizer’s vaccine must be kept at nearly minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to remain effective. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 11:33 am by Tom Lynch
Pfizer’s similar announcement from last week about its vaccine, BNT162b2, (also mRNA-based) gives us great hope that by mid-2021 the U.S. may have vaccinated most of the country’s population. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 10:32 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The results come hot on the heels of similar results from Pfizer, and add to growing confidence that vaccines can help end the pandemic. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 9:57 am by Anna Salvatore
This hopeful announcement comes a week after Pfizer, another American pharmaceutical giant, announced that its vaccine was more than 90 percent effective, a mark which far surpasses the Food and Drug Administration’s 50 percent success requirement for distributing a vaccine. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 9:41 am by Tom Smith
For the third time in a week, a coronavirus vaccine developer has reported preliminary results suggesting its vaccine is highly effective.Today, biotech company Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reported that its RNA-based vaccine was more than 94% effective at preventing COVID-19, based on an analysis of 95 cases in its ongoing phase III efficacy trial.But scientists say that the press-released results share a few more details than last week’s positive announcements from Pfizer… [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 8:54 am
"Last week, Pfizer (PFE) said that a vaccine it developed with German drugmaker BioNTech was more than 90% effective against Covid-19. [read post]