Australia will send thousands of coronavirus vaccine doses to Pacific Islands despite blood clot link to AstraZeneca jab meaning Aussies won’t all be immunised until 2022 More than 10,000 vaccination doses will be sent from Australia to Pacific Islands This is despite Australia’s vaccination program being derailed by blood clot link AstraZeneca jab will no … Read more
Moderna boss says his firm is on track to make sure Britain gets all 17million doses of its Covid vaccine by the end of the year Dan Staner said the company was on track to deliver all doses by the end of 2021 UK has ordered 17million from the company – enough to inoculate 8.5million … Read more
The first doses of the Moderna Covid vaccine will be given to patients in Wales from today. Jabs will be given out at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen in what has been hailed as ‘another key milestone’ in the fight against coronavirus. Five thousand doses of the vaccine were also sent to vaccination centres … Read more
The Baltimore plant that discarded 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine last week threw away up to 15 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine last year. And it may have to scrap up to 120 million more due to shoddy factory conditions, according to the New York Times: Included would be 62 million … Read more
Walgreens gave hundreds of thousands of Americans their second doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine a week late, flouting U.S. guidelines and confusing customers, the New York Times has revealed. Pfizer’s vaccine is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be given in two doses, spread three weeks apart, while Moderna’s is given three … Read more
UK dishes out record 400,000 second doses of Covid vaccines as figures show England has now reached 87% of all over-50s 404,922 people given second shot on Wednesday, up from 270,000 day prior NHS also administered 241,000 first doses, taking total jabs deployed to 35.6m Marks the second day in a row more follow-up shots … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Shipments of 15 MILLION doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one dose Covid vaccine will be halted after ingredient mix-up at Baltimore plant Workers at an Emergent BioSolutions plant swapped two ingredients in Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine The mix-up happened about two weeks ago but does not affect shipments that went out this … Read more
Boris Johnson tonight revealed GlaxoSmithKline will support the manufacturing of up to 60million doses of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine in the UK. No10’s vaccines taskforce has signed a deal with British drugs giant GSK to ‘fill and finish’ supplies of the American jab at its factory in Durham starting from May. Mr Johnson said the move … Read more
The Government has agreed a deal with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the manufacture of up to 60 million doses of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine. Here is what we know: – How does the vaccine work? The Novavax vaccine works like other vaccines by teaching the immune system to make antibodies to the coronavirus spike … Read more
How badly would the UK’s vaccine drive suffer if the EU blocked exports? If the European Union blocked all exports of coronavirus vaccines made on its turf, Britain could remain self-sufficient and still get jabs to the entire population. However, it could come under pressure on second dose supply because it relies on importing Pfizer’s … Read more