Pfizer

Pfizer and its vaccine partner BioNTech have just submitted an application for full approval of their vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration. This makes Pfizer the first covid-19 vaccine that is requesting full FDA approval. Currently, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are cleared for use under the FDA’s emergency use authorization. The […]

There has been a lot of speculation about the risks and benefits of the three Covid19 Vaccines available in the United States. Circulation of the Johnson & Johnson jab was paused after reports of severe blood clots developing in a few people who were injected with it. On Friday a CDC panel suggested that the […]

Welp, it was a matter of time before one of the pharmaceutical companies got hacked. On Wednesday Pfizer-BioNTech announced documents were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyberattack. The hack accessed data on the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The European Medicines Agency reported it was hacked but did not release any details about the attack. Both […]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced New York state is expecting to receive 170,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine starting this weekend. The federal government, the state will distribute them to each region based on the population of nursing home residents. Staff members and high-risk hospital workers. Those individuals will receive the vaccine first, according to the […]

The pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that they have signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense to deliver almost 300 million does of a COVID-19 Vaccine by 2021. The government’s plan is called Operation Warp Speed and it’s designed as part of a […]

Pfizer and BioNTech have been hard at work researching and testing a possible vaccine against the coronavirus. On Wednesday, the pharmaceutical companies announced that initial trials looked promising and seemed optimistic about the future of the vaccine. In the most recent trial, 45 people were tested. 36 of them received the vaccine and 9 got […]

Members of Rochester Regional Health and UR Medicine are starting to recruit people to enlist in a clinical trial partnership with BioNTech and Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Rochester General Hospital is now testing candidates and researchers say their goals are to have a vaccine ready for emergency use by 2021. The study consists […]