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A group of big-city mayors has asked the incoming Biden administration to bypass state governments and send vaccine shipments directly to them, as U.S. coronavirus infections on Thursday topped the 23 million mark.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is on track to roll out its single-shot coronavirus vaccine in March, and expects to have clear data on how effective it is by the end of this month or early February, the U.S. healthcare company's chief scientific officer said.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/pfizer-has-produced-more/"></div>NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE had produced over 70 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2020, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview on CNBC on Tuesday. “At the end of the last week of 2020, for example, we had already manufactured more than […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings abov...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Monday that its current drug pipeline has the ability to replace up to $25 billion a year in lost revenue from patent expirations by the end of the decade. According to a presentation for JP Morgan’s annual healthcare conference, the company said anemia drug Reblozyl, as well as experimental heart drug mavacamten, psoriasis drug deucravacitinib and its cancer cell therapy franchise could each be responsible for more...

U.S. health officials sought to speed up the sluggish pace of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, as the coronavirus claimed over 4,000 American lives for a second straight day and employment data showed the pandemic further stifling the job market.

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants -study

NEW YORK — The United States plans to start distributing COVID-19 vaccines through pharmacies around the country earlier than expected this week as states have…

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appears able to protect against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. drugmaker.

6 Min Read (Reuters) -The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS....

6 Min Read (Reuters) -The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS....