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February 1, 2021 6:15 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff The world could be on the verge of having two more vaccines to fight the pandemic, but virus variants popping up worldwide are forcing vaccine-makers to develop boosters for a disease that’s constantly changing and could remain active for years. The vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are already in use. Meanwhile, new studies show that two others—from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax—pack potent punches against the virus, potentially paving a way for quick authorizations in the U.S. for J&J’s va...

January 26, 2021 6:02 AM By Brandon Lee President Joe Biden says he anticipates that coronavirus vaccines will be available to anyone in the nation by spring, an ambitious target that can only be met with sharp increases in the current pace of inoculations. The U.S. is currently administering about 1.2 million shots a day, data compiled by Bloomberg show, and Biden said yesterday he expects that will soon reach 1.5 million doses. He said that his administration has “commitments from some of the producers that they’ll in fact produce more vaccine,” though didn’t...

Southwest Airlines and Salesforce.com followed in second and third place, respectively. 'Riley Griffin Bloomberg' - 6 News Result(s) World News | Riley Griffin, Bloomberg | Monday January 25, 2021 Merck & Co. is discontinuing development of its two experimental Covid-19 vaccines after early trial data showed they failed to generate immune responses comparable to a natural infection or existing vaccines. World News | Robert Langreth, Naomi Kresge and Riley Griffin, Bloomberg | Monday Nov...

Moderna to bolster its vaccine to fight SA Covid-19 strain By Robert Langreth (Bloomberg) – Moderna says it plans to begin human studies of a booster shot for its Covid-19 vaccine to help it protect against a more-transmissible South Africa virus variant, after a lab test showed the shot may be less potent against that strain. In lab tests conducted with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Moderna says its vaccine produced six-fold lower levels of neutralising antibodies against the South Africa variant called B.1.351 than it did against the original Covid-19 strain. ...

January 7, 2021 6:12 AM By Brandon Lee Democrats, holding the slimmest-possible majority in the Senate, will set the health-care agenda in the new Congress but face an uphill battle in sending major legislation to the president’s desk. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to build on the Affordable Care Act by expanding its insurance subsidies and creating a government-run insurance plan. Those ideas face strong political headwinds. Election runoff victories by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock give Democrats control of Senate confirmations of political and judicial nominees. The...