Tag: Moderna

The United States is determined to help the people of India in this moment of crisis, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said here as the first shipment of key life-saving medical supplies for the country took off from California. "The United States is determined ...

WASHINGTON—Russian intelligence agencies have mounted a campaign to undermine confidence in Pfizer Inc.’s and other Western vaccines, using online publications that in recent months have questioned the vaccines’ development and safety, U.S. officials said.An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four ...

There are more than 50 clinical trials worldwide testing potential vaccines, known as candidates, against COVID-19. So far, three of the vaccine candidates have been approved. How far have researchers got in the development of a vaccine? The majority of vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are still in a preclinical ...

On Friday, wealthy countries reportedly blocked India and South Africa-led efforts at the World Trade Organisation, seeking a temporary waiver of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights obligations to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 drugs, vaccines and medical products. The proposal, which has the support of developing nations, the World ...

A group of developing countries, backed by United Nations agencies and activist groups, is pushing to limit patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines being tested by some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies so that inexpensive copies can be produced for poorer nations. South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan and others ...

Moderna Inc.’s patents that were filed or awarded are being probed by the US Department of Defense’s research arm, the Financial Times reported, saying the company failed to disclose government funding as required by federal law.Knowledge Ecology International, a patient advocacy group, said in a report this week that ...

The new coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades, scientists have found. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University’s Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics said in a study published Tuesday ...