Coronavirus Vaccine Trials

• Johnson & Johnson asks U.S. FDA for emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine

  The drugmaker's application follows its Jan. 29 report in which it said the vaccine had a 66 per cent rate of preventing infections in its large global trial.

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  Feb 4, 2021
  
• ‘Real tension’: Should all coronavirus vaccine volunteers now get the real thing?

  With the first vaccine rollouts and a surge in coronavirus infections, experts are debating what to do about half of the people in clinical trials that got a dummy shot.

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  Jan 1, 2021
  
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• Remdesivir doesn’t help COVID-19 patients recover, WHO study says

  The findings are in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries.

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  Oct 16, 2020
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• Eli Lilly to resume some coronavirus antibody-drug trials after safety concerns

  The paused trial, which Lilly calls ACTIV-3, focused on hospitalized patients.

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  Oct 14, 2020
• Coronavirus vaccine trials: Pfizer to include participants as young as 12

  The trial, which is being conducted in four countries including the United States, has enrolled more than 37,000 participants.

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  Oct 13, 2020
• No coronavirus vaccine will get endorsement unless proven safe, WHO says

  The comments came as Russia and China started using their experimental vaccines before large studies have finished.

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  Sep 4, 2020
• Moving ‘too quickly’ on coronavirus vaccine comes with risks: WHO

  Although every country had the right to approve drugs without completing full trials, "it is not something that you do very lightly," WHO said.

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  Aug 31, 2020
• China’s CanSino in talks for large-scale trial of potential coronavirus vaccine overseas

  There are no approved vaccines yet for COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, which has killed more than half a million people globally.

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  Jul 11, 2020
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• Summer could decide frontrunners in race for COVID-19 vaccine

  People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works -- and maybe offer a reality check.

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  Jun 28, 2020
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• Over 10,000 to receive potential COVID-19 vaccine in U.K. as tests expand

  British researchers testing an experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to find out if it works.

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  May 22, 2020