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The company has said it can have 180,000 treatment courses ready to ship this year and plans to produce at least 80 million more in 2022. Pfizer Inc on Tuesday said the final analysis of its antiviral COVID-19 pill still showed near 90% efficacy in preventing hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk patients, and recent lab data suggests the drug retains its …

The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found.

A semi-retired British scientist co-authored a petition to Europe's medicines regulator, speculating, without providing evidence, that the vaccines could cause infertility in women. By REUTERS Late last year, a semi-retired British scientist co-authored a petition to Europe’s medicines regulator. The petitioners made a bold demand: Halt COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.

Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that their coronavirus vaccine had been granted emergency authorization in Britain, making it the first Western nation to approve a covid-19 vaccine.

The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old.

A US-developed vaccine has been shown to be 94.5% effective at protecting people from COVID-19, according to interim results.

The US government has agreed to pay almost $2 billion for 100 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine, German firm BioNTech said on Wednesday.