Eight months ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was investigating Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson for potentially lying to the public concerning the success of their respective COVID-19 vaccines. Now, he’s filed a lawsuit. Paxton’s lawsuit alleges that Pfizer violated t.
Europe's medicines watchdog said Wednesday it has started to review an adapted version of Pfizer/BioNTech's anti-Covid jab in order to better protect against specific variants of the virus, including Omicron.
The Lancet study analysed antibodies in the blood of 250 healthy people who received either one or two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, up to three months after their first dose.
Pfizer says its COVID vaccine effective up to six months later
There were no serious safety concerns and the vaccine also appeared to work against a variant first detected in South Africa, the companies said.
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NEW YORK: Pfizer says its vaccine continues to be effective against COVID-19 up to six months later.
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, announced updated results Thursday from their ongoing late-stage study of more than 44,000 volunteers.
The companies said the vaccine was 91% effective against symptomatic disease and was even more protective in preventing severe disease. Of 927 confirmed COVID-19 cases detected through March 13, 77 were among people who received the vaccine and 850 were among people who got dummy shots.
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+ March 17, 2021 DR. Reina Tan is one of the first Filipinos who has had the vaccine as she works in healthcare abroad. Dr. Tan is based in New York University and is a physician more specifically a pediatric cardiologist who is now based in the Big Apple. She grew up in Manila, went to a private all girls Catholic school in Greenhills, pursued her medicine degree and now lives in New York.
The United States is leading the world together with Israel in the inoculation of millions of its citizens. The USA is at an advantage as they manufacture their own vaccine. America s goal is to reach herd immunity by Summer of 2021, which is July-August of this year. They are currently doing two million vaccinations daily according to CNN.