Tag: Pfizer

Australian Professor and COVID-19 Vaccine Developer Could Lose Job After Refusing Shots

Australian professor and vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky faces losing his job after refusing to get one of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)-approved shots, the ABC reported. Petrovsky developed his own COVID-19 vaccine, called COVAX-19, through his company Vaxine, which has laboratories at Flinders University. It completed phase one trials in August last year and the Adelaide-based medical researcher has administered the vaccine himself. However,…


Facts Matter (Nov. 1): Study Finds Vaccinated People Just as Likely to Spread Delta Within Household

On Sunday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that she has tested positive for COVID-19, despite the fact that she was fully vaccinated. Now, this leads us to two large trends that are currently revealing themselves in society. The first is that, according to a study that came out of the UK, vaccinated people…


Delay on Moderna Shots for Children 5–11 Not Expected to Affect Vaccination Rollout: White House

Drug regulators delaying a decision on whether or not to authorize Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children won’t affect the rollout of jabs for children as young as 5, Biden administration officials said Monday. The Biden administration has secured enough of Pfizer’s vaccine to vaccinate every child between 5 and 11, Jeffrey Zients, the White House’s…


Kids and Vaccines: After FDA’s Emergency Authorization, a Look at the Evidence

News Analysis To read the headlines, you’d think the verdict was in. On Oct. 26, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s RNA COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11, under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). On Oct. 29, the FDA issued an emergency authorization based…


FDA Authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 for Emergency Use in Children Aged 5 to 11

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued an emergency authorization to use Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 through 11, coming days after an advisory panel recommended it. But before the shots can be distributed across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must first sign off on…


FDA Authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children Aged 5 to 11

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued an emergency authorization to use Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 through 11, coming days after an advisory panel recommended it. But before the shots can be distributed across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must first sign off on…


Rare A.30 COVID-19 Variant ‘Efficiently Evades’ Pfizer, AstraZeneca Vaccines: Study

An old COVID-19 variant called A.30—which is exceedingly rare—“efficiently evades” antibodies induced by the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines, according to a team of scientists in Germany. Only five cases of the A.30 variant have been reported so far worldwide, according to the COVID-19 variant tracking network GISAID. Three of these were in Angola, and one…


FDA Adviser Explains Why He Abstained From Vote on Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Children

The only Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel member to abstain from a major vote this week that essentially authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 5 said he did so because of limited safety and efficacy data. All 17 others voted to advise the administration, or the FDA, to authorize the…


Biden Admin Purchases 50 Million More Vaccine Doses for Kids, Pfizer Says

The Biden administration has purchased an additional 50 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses for children to be delivered by the end of April next year, the drugmakers said in a statement on Thursday. “The U.S. will receive these additional doses to continue to support preparedness for pediatric vaccinations, including securing vaccines for children under 5…


Biden Admin Purchases 50 Million More Vaccine Doses for Kids

The Biden administration has purchased an additional 50 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses for children to be delivered by the end of April next year, the drugmakers said in a statement on Thursday. “The U.S. will receive these additional doses to continue to support preparedness for pediatric vaccinations, including securing vaccines for children under 5…