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US Operation Warp Speed backed vaccines for whole world

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 28 05:42 AM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's announcement in May of plans to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by year's end is near realization -- despite a setback among one of the six candidates that the US supported. Read more »

Will COVID-19 vaccines protect us? Does efficacy equal effectiveness?

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Nov 28 03:37 AM

The frontrunners in the COVID-19 vaccine race have emerged with different success rates for their shots in clinical trials, but what does that mean for the global fight against the pandemic? Read more »

'Kind of lonely': America marks COVID-altered Thanksgiving

Dan Whitcomb and Nathan Layne, Reuters
Posted at Nov 27 10:07 AM

Americans marked a muted Thanksgiving Day holiday on Thursday, sometimes seeing family only by video after political leaders discouraged travel or large gatherings in the face of the surging coronavirus pandemic. Read more »

COVID vaccines: Why the safety process reassures experts

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 06:15 AM

WASHINGTON - COVID-19 vaccine emergency approvals are around the corner, makers are preparing to ship millions of doses -- and experts are trying to reassure the public that the record-breaking speed of development hasn't compromised safety. Read more »

What is it like to take part in a vaccine trial?

Leila Macor, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 25 11:43 AM

Three weeks before Pfizer and Moderna launched their coronavirus vaccine clinical trials in late July, my father passed away -- alone, as so many have in this crisis. Two days after writing a story about the start of phase 3 trials in Florida, I once again knocked on the door of a lab -- this time as a potential subject. Read more »

US will distribute 6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in first tranche

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 25 06:22 AM

The US plans to distribute 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the first week after it is cleared for emergency use, which is likely next month, officials said Tuesday. Read more »

EU secures 160 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

Francesco Guarascio, Reuters
Posted at Nov 25 12:03 AM

Moderna said its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19, based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial. Read more »

Big businesses donating 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses: presidential adviser

Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 24 06:52 PM

Some of the Philippines’ biggest companies have committed to donating 1.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the second quarter of 2021 to help the government’s immunization drive, a presidential adviser said on Tuesday.  Read more »

COVID-19 vaccines offer hope as world leaders plan for future

AFP bureaus, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 24 03:07 PM

Hopes over COVID-19 vaccines have given a boost to virus-weary citizens across the globe, but the disease remains rampant and world leaders are urging people to be patient.  Read more »

UNICEF says to ship 2 billion COVID vaccines to poor nations in 2021

Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Nov 23 08:38 AM

Nearly 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be shipped and flown to developing countries next year in a "mammoth operation", the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday, as world leaders vowed to ensure the fair distribution of vaccines.   Read more »

Politics, science and the remarkable race for a coronavirus vaccine

Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Denise Grady, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 22 09:58 AM

Pfizer and Moderna alone would not meet domestic or global demand, but other companies in the United States and around the world are also rushing toward effective vaccines, some of them using more proven technologies, so other winners are likely to emerge.   Read more »

US coronavirus vaccine trials raise hopes Chinese drugs will also be effective - pharma chief

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 22 08:12 AM

CanSino’s co-founder Zhu Tao says the positive results reported by Moderna and Pfizer suggest it would ‘not be difficult’ to reach high efficacy rates. The Chinese drugs may not reach the 90-plus percent level of the US products, but they would still be ‘successful’ if they hit 70 or 80 percent. Read more »

Iba't ibang kompanya, interesado na gumawa ng COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials sa Pilipinas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 20 09:10 PM

Ayon sa FDA, natanggap na nila ang aplikasyon ng pharmaceutical company na AztraZeneca.  Read more »

'Karamihan ng Pinoy game maturukan ng bakuna vs COVID-19'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 20 08:11 PM

Sa survey, lumalabas na 66 porsiyento ng mga Pilipino ang handang magpaturok ng bakuna laban sa COVID-19. Read more »

Para di 'mangulelat' ang Pilipinas: Pondo para sa COVID-19 vaccine ikinakasa

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 19 07:40 PM

Ito umano ay para matiyak na hindi mangulelat ang Pilipinas sa pagbili ng bakuna sa COVID-19.  Read more »

What are clinical trials and how do they work?

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 19 11:23 AM

To find out whether experimental COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, researchers design clinical trials involving thousands of volunteers, divided into groups that receive either the drug under investigation or a placebo.  Read more »

How the out-of-control pandemic is speeding the hunt for vaccines

Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 19 07:37 AM

The coronavirus is spreading out of control in the United States, overwhelming health systems and killing more than 1,100 Americans a day. But there is a slender silver lining: It is hastening the testing of vaccines that could eventually end the pandemic. Read more »

Hike COVID-19 vaccine budget to P50B, Recto urges Congress

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 19 05:07 AM

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday pushed to increase the government's budget for the COVID-19 vaccine to P50 billion, saying officials did not include funding for the distribution of the drug. Read more »

DOH wants to fast track approval of COVID-19 vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 19 12:07 AM

Leading COVID-19 vaccine developers Pfizer and Moderna are not planning to conduct clinical trials in the Philippines. Read more »

Pfizer, Moderna have no plans for COVID-19 trials in PH- Vergeire

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 18 02:19 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Wednesday said that while some of the COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners are not interested in conducting clinical trials in the Philippines, they are open distributing in the country.  Read more »