Celltrion Inc. is riding high after receiving full approval for Regkirona (regdanvimab), as a treatment for COVID-19 in South Korea, seven months after the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) granted it conditional marketing approval in February 2021.
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Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE have announced new data that could pave the way for childhood COVID-19 vaccine programs, with findings of a trial showing their shot is safe and effective in children of 5 to 12 years of age.
LONDON – Researchers in the U.K. have applied the heft of national population-level databases to devise a new algorithm that predicts those people who are most at risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, despite having received two doses of vaccine.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee rejected an sBLA for a third, booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty from Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE for ages 16 and over, then unanimously approved a recommendation for those ages 65 and older along with individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19 to get the booster.
Nearly 18% of clinical data reported in August were focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, representing the highest percentage for any single month this year. During the month, as the Delta variant took hold throughout the U.S., news of COVID-19 efforts spiked, doubling the amounts seen in both June and July, in which about 9% of the news was pandemic-related, and up significantly from 10% in May.
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