Two potential coronavirus vaccines have shown promising results in early trials, and while experts say it's encouraging news, they warn that some of the biggest hurdles still lie ahead.The early trial results for the two vaccine candidates — one developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca and the other by the Chinese company CanSino…
You don't have permission to access "http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/uw-coronavirus-vaccine-shows-strong-immune-response-in-monkeys-mice/" on this server. Reference #18.2c18ae8c.1595287347.1f1db124
A leading vaccine candidate from pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University showed a “robust immune” response to the coronavirus in a randomized trial in humans, the company said Monday. Researchers tried both a one-shot dose and a two-dose regimen of the vaccine known as AZD1222 in the phase I-II trial involving more than 1,000 adults.…
LONDON (AP) — Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got the experimental vaccine. Such early trials…
As the Covid-19 crisis escalates in the U.S., the scramble for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek Food and Drug Administration authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine as early as October. The federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine program, meanwhile, says it wants AstraZeneca’s (AZN) vaccine…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…