Covid UK: Health chiefs prepare for autumn vaccine booster drive testing SEVEN jabs for ‘top-ups’

Covid booster vaccines are to be trialled in the UK as health chiefs gear up to offer all over-50s a third dose by the autumn. Southampton University scientists aim to recruit thousands of double-vaccinated Britons to the study, who will receive one of seven Covid jabs as a top-up. They will record any side-effects, and … Read more

Health chiefs gear up for autumn Covid vaccine booster drive

Covid booster vaccines are to be trialled in the UK as health chiefs gear up to offer all over-50s a third dose by the autumn. Southampton University scientists aim to recruit thousands of double-vaccinated Britons to the study, who will receive one of seven Covid jabs as a top-up. They will record any side-effects, and … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Oxford Biomedica given a £100m vaccine booster

MARKET REPORT: Oxford Biomedica given a £100m vaccine booster after helping churn out the Astrazeneca jab By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 18 May 2021 The pandemic has thrust little-known companies into the spotlight and none more so than Oxford Biomedica. Pre-Covid the Oxford … Read more

Time to get a profit booster – by investing in drug firms

They say no good deed goes unpunished. That has certainly been the case for AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical business that created a stable, barely-for-profit coronavirus vaccine that’s already been injected into tens of millions of arms across the UK.  In a period where we’ve talked of little else but our health, and Britain’s large pharmaceutical companies … Read more

Booster jabs to battle new coronavirus strains will be ready by September, Oxford expert says

Britain is winning its war against Covid and the success of the vaccination campaign would have been ‘unthinkable’ a year ago, the Oxford vaccine chief said yesterday. Professor Andrew Pollard predicted jabs to tackle new variants of the virus could be ready as early as September. But even the existing vaccines would provide some protection … Read more

Booster jabs to battle new coronavirus strains will be ready by September, Oxford expert says

Britain is winning its war against Covid and the success of the vaccination campaign would have been ‘unthinkable’ a year ago, the Oxford vaccine chief said yesterday. Professor Andrew Pollard predicted jabs to tackle new variants of the virus could be ready as early as September. But even the existing vaccines would provide some protection … Read more

Moderna’s vaccine booster shot that protects against South African variant will be ready by FALL

Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot that protects against South African variant will be ready by FALL, CEO says Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company has been testing three coronavirus vaccine booster shots in parallel Two-thirds of the volunteers will be given two different dose of the third dose, which codes for the spike protein of … Read more

NIH begins dosing people with Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot

NIH begins dosing people with Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot to see if it protects against the South African variant The NIH has begun clinical trials testing a booster shot of Moderna Inc’s COVID vaccine to see if it will protect against the South African variant Approximately 210 healthy adult volunteers will be enrolled at … Read more

Britain’s vaccine rollout to expand to give the over-70s Covid-19 booster jabs in September

Britons over 70 will be given Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs in September to protect them from new variants of the virus.  Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi unveiled details of the new plan with the first booster doses given to people in the top four priority groups.  As well as over-70s, this group contains frontline NHS and social … Read more