A second experimental coronavirus vaccine being tested by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE showed promising results. The two companies say their second jab produced just as many antibodies in volunteers as their first jab did, but had far fewer side effects. Results published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine … Read more
Swollen toes, prickly skin, long-term heart damage, disturbing hallucinations – it seems there’s nothing that Covid-19 won’t do to you, doctors have discovered over the past eight months. At first, experts believed the main complication of this ‘mystery lung disease’ was pneumonia. The symptoms were a dry cough and a fever. Then a loss of … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shown his shaking hands as he continues to recover from a suspected novichok poisoning in August. Navalny made the comments during his first video appearance since being discharged from a Berlin hospital, recorded just six days after he was released. ‘My hands shake. If I were to drink water from … Read more
Coronavirus vaccines might leave us laid up for a day with headaches, fevers, sore muscles, shivering chills and no energy, participants in trials for Moderna’s and Pfizer’s shots told CNBC. But the side effects will be worth it, and fade after a day, they added. Vaccines of all kinds commonly come with side effects – … Read more
European countries will have to cover compensation costs if Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine causes any side effects, as part of the EU’s deal to secure the experimental jab at a discounted price, it was claimed today. The European Union is said to have struck a deal with AstraZeneca – which owns the rights to the … Read more
US regulators are ‘very concerned’ about the potential side effects of AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine and are debating whether or not to allow the trials to resume. Last week, the trial was put on hold when a British participant was rushed to the hospital after suffering a serious reaction that triggered spinal cord … Read more
Australian COVID-19 vaccine produces ZERO side effects in human trials and provides protection against the virus in animals while reducing symptoms University of Queensland and CSL have trialled COVID-19 vaccine on humans The researchers have also injected hamsters with the drug in the Netherlands Project co-leader Associate Professor Keith Chappell hailed animal trial success By … Read more
Australian COVID-19 vaccine produces ZERO side effects in human trials and provides protection against the virus in animals while reducing symptoms University of Queensland and CSL have trialled COVID-19 vaccine on humans The researchers have also injected hamsters with the drug in the Netherlands Project co-leader Associate Professor Keith Chappell hailed animal trial success By … Read more
A second Russian Covid-19 vaccine is on the way which ‘avoids the side-effects of the first one’ launched in a blaze of publicity by Vladimir Putin this month. The new drug is from a former top-secret Soviet biological weapons research plant in Siberia, now a world-leading virology institute. Clinical trials of Russia’s second vaccine named … Read more
Pfizer’s second experimental coronavirus vaccine left HALF as many people with side effects compared to its first in a promising sign for a safe shot Both vaccines use part of the coronavirus’s genetic code. but B1 codes for part of the protein the virus uses to infect cells and B2 codes for the entire protein … Read more