Data from Israel’s health ministry shows Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine significantly less effective at preventing infection and symptomatic illness with the Delta variant than with previous strains of coronavirus; conflicting with existing research that suggests strong protection against the variant; here’s what might explain the discrepancy. Key Facts about Pfizer: A full course of the Pfizer-BioNTech […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday added a warning to patient; and provider fact sheets for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to indicate a rare risk of heart inflammation. Also, for each vaccine, the fact sheets revise to include a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis after the second dose and with the onset of […]
The National Ministry of Health has issued guidelines for use of the Pfizer vaccine in the country that is among the last vaccines allowed by DRAP for use to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the guidelines, the vaccine would be kept in minus 60 to 80 degrees centigrade and any contact with light should […]
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is the second submitted for full approval in Brazil after AstraZeneca applied on January 29 for the vaccine it created with Oxford University. That vaccine is being manufactured in Brazil in partnership with the federally funded Fiocruz biomedical center. Brazil has already approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Chinese-developed SinoVac shots […]
Pfizer Inc has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told the local news agency on Friday. The United States company; which was the first drugmaker to apply for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India; had a meeting […]
The World Health Organization has listed Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use; a critical step that the United Nations health agency said aims to make the vaccine more readily available in developing nations. In a statement on Thursday, WHO said its validation of the Pfizer-BioNTech– the first since the start of the pandemic – “opens […]
The United States green-lighted the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine late on Friday, paving the way for millions of vulnerable people to receive their shots in the world’s hardest-hit country. President Donald Trump immediately released a video on Twitter; where he hailed the news as a “medical miracle” and said the first immunizations would take place “in […]
