HDT Bio Corp. looked at the world and saw health care inequity, so it built itself to help countries with developing economies help themselves. The company is bringing RNA technology for handling COVID-19 to underserved areas such as Brazil so they can develop, manufacture and distribute their own vaccine instead of relying on big pharma or developed-nation governments.
Since COVID-19 hit the U.S. in 2020, the pandemic has taken more than 800,000 American lives. In that same time, cancer has claimed 1.2 million lives, President Joe Biden said Feb. 2 as he “reignited” the cancer moonshot he first launched in 2016 when he was serving as vice president.
Amid pressure to get a COVID-19 vaccine authorized for infants and toddlers sooner than later, Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE initiated a rolling submission seeking to amend the U.S. FDA’s emergency use authorization for their mRNA vaccine to include children 6 months through 4 years of age.
LONDON – The first human challenge study of SARS-CoV-2 infection has reported initial results, showing it is safe to infect healthy volunteers with the virus in controlled conditions, and paving the way for the model to be used to accelerate clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines, antivirals and diagnostics.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Azafaros, Brand Institute, Denovo, Immune-Onc, Janssen, Moderna, Mydecine, Ose, Pharmather, Veloxis, Viiv.
The availability of rapid antigen tests for the COVID-19 pandemic has been far short of ideal in recent weeks despite a recent order by the Biden administration for half a billion tests. The question of whether additional federal dollars are forthcoming for additional tests is up in the air, however, due to congressional concerns that there is roughly $800 million in unspent federal dollars, a signal that any additional monies might not be made available any time in the near term.
Russia’s Ministry of Health is looking to extend its role on the global stage. Over the next few months, the ministry, along with other regulatory agencies in Russia, said it plans to start the accreditation process of coming into compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
During the most infectious COVID-19 month since the pandemic began, January recorded an increase of 82.3 million confirmed cases worldwide, an amount that is fourfold the average monthly increase over the past year. It comes at a time when the highly transmissible omicron variant continues to circulate, bolstered by a new subvariant, BA.2, which is outcompeting its predecessor. Meanwhile, regulatory agencies are authorizing antivirals, swapping monoclonal antibodies based on their efficacy against omicron, and approving new vaccine options, including Novavax Inc.’s protein-based vaccine Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373).
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akeso, Altimmune, Celltrion, Cybin, Eagle, Filament, Genentech, Immunoprecise, Janssen, Kite, Nordic, Novelmed, Reata, Regeneron, Sanofi, Veru, Viridian.
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