Vaccine

A new study assesses the influence of anti-vaccination tweets on residents of the United States counties where they were sent.Share on PinterestOnline misinformation about vaccines may have a negative influence on people’s attitudes and behavior.Health professionals consider vaccines to be one of the great achievements of modern medicine. Even so, skepticism over their value and…

Two years ago, health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in extremely remote parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo faced a quandary — trial vaccines for the deadly disease had to be stored at sub-freezing temperatures as they traveled deep into tropical forests by helicopter or motorcycle. America’s highways and byways are far more…

Source of the BioNTech graphic: Wikipedia. BioNTech SE (BNTX) is a Germany-based biotechnology company which has teamed up with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the market. There are no market or economic precedents for this pandemic or for how to estimate a value for a successful COVID-19 vaccine, or how to estimate…

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a visit to the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' Innovation Center, a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where components for a potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are being developed, in Morrrisville, North Carolina, U.S., July 27, 2020.Carlos Barria | ReutersThe hunt is on for a vaccine for Covid-19, which has…

By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Thursday kicked off U.S. human safety trials for its COVID-19 vaccine after releasing details of a study in monkeys that showed its best-performing vaccine candidate offered strong protection in a single dose.When exposed to the virus, six out of six animals who got the…