Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson told a G20 health summit Friday they will supply around 3.5 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses at cost or discount to poorer nations this year and next. US pharma giant Pfizer will deliver two billion doses “over the next 18 months”, including one billion in 2021, chairman and chief executive...
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France Sticks to Plan to Give Johnson & Johnson Vaccine to Over-55s
France is sticking to its plan to give over-55s the Johnson & Johnson vaccine suspended in the US and South Africa over rare blood clots, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Gabriel Attal also reaffirmed the government’s confidence in the AstraZeneca jab as an “essential tool” in the fight against Covid-19, hours after Denmark said it...
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US regulators recommend ‘pause’ in use of J&J vaccine over blood clot fears
US health authorities recommended a “pause” Tuesday in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine “out of an abundance of caution” over potential links to a rare type of blood clot, in a blow to the country’s immunization campaign. The US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are assessing...
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EU Agency reviewing blood clots with Johnson & Johnson vaccine
The EU’s drug regulator said Friday it had launched a review of possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and blood clots after reports of four cases, one of them fatal. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said its safety committee “has started a review of a safety signal to assess reports of thromboembolic events” with...
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Biden welcomes green light for Johnson & Johnson vaccine
US President Joe Biden welcomed the approval to use a third vaccine against Corona in the United States, which is the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, while stressing the need for continued caution at a time when the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 500,000 people in the country, according to “France Press”. Biden...