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Brazilian cities deny media reports that they used expired COVID-19 shots firstwordpharma
July 05, 2021
Municipalities across Brazil denied a newspaper report that said health ministry data showed cities administered at least 26,000 expired doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, as reported in London South East.
More pharmacies to participate in C-19 booster programme firstwordpharma
July 05, 2021
Earlier this week, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) published their interim advice on COVID-19 vaccine boosters for certain cohorts of the population, including frontline health and care workers.
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July 05, 2021
Starting with the UK earlier this year, as COVID-19 vaccines are actively rolling out across the world, the debate over whether to develop and introduce vaccine passports is getting even more intensified.
Most Americans Who Wanted COVID-19 Vaccine Have Already Gotten One drugs
July 01, 2021
In another sign that COVID-19 vaccination rates have plateaued in America, a new poll shows that most adults who wanted a COVID-19 vaccine have already gotten one.
Brazil's Anvisa suspends Covaxin shot's emergency use application firstwordpharma
July 01, 2021
Brazil's health regulator has suspended Covaxin's emergency-use application, which was filed by an intermediary on behalf of the COVID-19 vaccine's developer Bharat Biotech, as reported in This is Money.
Letting children catch Covid may be safer than giving them vaccine, say experts firstwordpharma
July 01, 2021
A member of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says allowing children to catch COVID-19 may be better than exposing them to the "risk" of vaccines?, reported The Telegraph.
Novavax Publishes Results of United Kingdom Phase 3 Clinical Trial in New England Journal of Medicine, Demonstrating High Levels of Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine firstwordpharma
July 01, 2021
Novavax today announced the publication of results from the final analysis of a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate conducted in the United Kingdom in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies to expand biologics manufacturing capacity cphi-online
July 01, 2021
As part of $850 million investment package, CDMO will double US cell culture production for recombinant vaccines and increase UK gene therapy production tenfold.
AHA News: Embraceable, Healthy News: Hugging Is Back drugs
June 30, 2021
After a year of being COVID-cautious, Linda Matisoff counted the days until she could hug her 5-year-old granddaughter, Laila, again.
AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine and COVISHIELD: Risk of Capillary Leak Syndrome firstwordpharma
June 30, 2021
Healthcare professionals including infectious disease physicians, family physicians, emergency room physicians, hematologists, neurologists, pharmacists, public health officials, nurses and nurse practitioners, and healthcare professionals at identified p