Tag: Pfizer

UK to Offer Pfizer Vaccine to Some 12-Year-Olds and Over

The UK will offer Pfizer-BioNTech CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccines to some groups of children that are over 12-year-old, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said on Monday. The government’s advisory body Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on Monday issued its recommendation, advising that children “at increased risk of serious COVID-19 disease” are offered the…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (July 16)

Pfizer agrees to pay hundreds of million of dollars to settle a series of lawsuits, consumers say it jacked up price of a life saving medical device by five times. The nation’s longest running auto show is back after missing a year in lockdown. What’s the crowd is saying? and what brought them to this…


US Drug Regulators Set January Target to Decide on Approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

A review of Pfizer’s request for approval of its COVID-19 vaccine will likely be completed by January 2022, U.S. drug regulators announced Friday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to make the request a priority. FDA officials in December 2020 granted emergency use authorization to COVID-19 jabs from Pfizer and Moderna. The only…


Pfizer Agrees to Pay $345 Million to Resolve EpiPen Pricing Lawsuit

Pfizer Inc has agreed to pay $345 million to resolve claims by consumers who claim they overpaid for EpiPens due to anticompetitive and unfair practices by the drugmaker and the company that markets the emergency allergy treatment, Mylan. The proposed class action settlement was disclosed in a filing in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas….


Pfizer and Government Ministers Rebuff Former PM’s Claims He Intervened in Vaccine Rollout

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and senior government ministers have rebuffed claims that former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd played a role in expediting shipments of Pfizer vaccine to Australia. This comes after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) alleged on July 13 that Rudd had met with Pfizer Chairman Albert Bourla on June 30, and it was…


Benefits of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Outweigh Risk of Heart Inflammation: WHO Vaccine Safety Committee

Benefits from the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the risk of heart inflammation, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) vaccine safety committee has said in its updated guidance. After reviewing all currently available information and despite evidence suggesting a likely association between heart inflammation and the emergency use mRNA vaccine, the WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine…


Pfizer, Health Officials to Discuss COVID-19 Boosters on Monday

WASHINGTON—COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer will meet with federal health officials as soon as Monday to discuss the need for a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine as it prepares to seek authorization, the company said on Sunday. The meeting comes days after the drugmaker and its partner BioNTech SE announced plans to seek U.S. and…


EU Delivers Enough Doses to Vaccinate 70 Percent of Adults, Von Der Leyen Says

BRUSSELS—The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 percent of adults in the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement on Saturday. Von der Leyen, who had tweeted on May 9 that the EU was on…


Pfizer CEO Apologized for No Heads Up on Vaccine Booster Announcement: Fauci

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla apologized on July 8 to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci for failing to give the Biden administration a heads up before news emerged that the company planned to seek authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine. “The CEO, who is a really good guy,…


CDC, FDA Says People ‘Do Not Need a Booster Shot at This Time’ After Pfizer Intends to Seek OK for 3rd Shot

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement late Thursday saying that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus “do not need a booster shot at this time.” But the two federal health agencies also said that they “are prepared for…