Medicine

Surveying the clinical trial landscape.

Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines against the coronavirus say they only sell directly to governments.

Nicaragua on Wednesday received its first vaccines against COVID-19 with an initial donation of Russia’s Sputnik V product, Vice President Rosario Murillo said.

Medical schemes, funds that pool member contributions to cover healthcare costs, have been in talks with the government over funding vaccines for those without access to private health cover as well as their own members.

The delivery comes eight months after the launch of the COVAX initiative, aimed at pooling funds from wealthier countries and non-profits to distribute vaccines equitably around the world.

In total, Germany expects 56.3 million doses from AstraZeneca under the EU contract, which is equal to 18.7% of 300 million doses for the EU.

Commission president responds to fresh criticism over shortages of vaccine doses in bloc.

The J&J vaccine is the first vaccine to show efficacy given as a single dose.

Egypt has approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, becoming the 34th country outside of Russia and third in North Africa to do so.

The problems have occurred in numerous company locations across several states.

Vietnam aims to obtain 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, including 30 million through the COVAX international vaccine-share scheme, 30 million from AstraZeneca and the rest from negotiations with Pfizer.

Millions of people are now being immunized with mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high efficacy and look safe in the short-term.

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Professor David Ridley will share insights from his new research that suggests that the way Medicare​ pays health care providers for drugs inadvertently encourages drug makers to charge higher prices.

The expected shortfall, which has not previously been reported, follows a big reduction in supplies in the first quarter and could hit the EU’s ability to meet its target of vaccinating 70% of adults by summer.