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As BioNTech raises expected COVID-19 vaccine sales to $19.6B, CEO stumps for wider booster use

Like its partner on its COVID-19 vaccine, BioNTech keeps upping its estimate for 2021 vaccine revenue. Last week, Pfizer jacked up its annual guidance on its vaccine ...
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Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for younger kids meets FDA bar, with CDC panel next week being key to wide rollout

Kids ages 5-11 in the United States are now eligible for vaccination against COVID-19. On Friday afternoon, the FDA authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine, Comir...
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective in kids ages 5 to 11, setting up possible FDA nod

Amid the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign, youngsters 11 and under have been ineligible for shots—even though millions are back in school. With new Pfizer dat...
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Johnson & Johnson wins FDA panel backing for a second dose of its COVID shot but don’t call it a ‘booster’

Over the last year, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been commonly referred to as a single-shot alternative to the two-dose regimens of mRNA vaccines fr...
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Pfizer, Moderna will rake in a combined $93 billion next year on COVID-19 vaccine sales

If you think Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are making a fortune on COVID-19 vaccine sales this year, just wait for 2022. The messenger RNA shot producers are projected...
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FDA delays decision on Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in 12-17 age group because of myocarditis concerns

After reports in four Nordic countries of the heart inflammation condition myocarditis, the FDA has delayed a decision on the Moderna COVID-19 shot for kids between t...
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FDA ready to bless mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines as boosters

Data from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study on booster shots have convinced the FDA to allow Americans to use a different COVID-19 vaccine for a booster dos...
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Volume 13 Issue 5

Operationalising Decentralised Clinical Trials (DCTs)

The Challenges and Change Management Approaches, Considering Trial Designs and Timelines with Decentralisation Methods at the Forefront While components of fully dec...
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Volume 13 Issue 5

Plain Language Summaries of Publications – What Has COVID-19 Taught Us?

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the whole world and the public has had to struggle with understanding scientific data on a daily basis. The impact of...
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Merck and Ridgeback’s molnupiravir will be ‘complementary, but not a competitor’ to COVID-19 vaccines: analyst

What do Merck and Ridgeback’s eye-opening data, recently released for its antiviral molnupiravir on high-risk COVID-19 patients, mean for manufacturers of vaccines? ...
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