The approval is based on the Phase III ATLAS studies which included more than 1,1000 patients from 16 countries. "Cabenuva reduces the treatment dosing days from 365 days to 12 days per year", said Lynn baxter, head of North America, ViiV Healthcare. [Full Article...]
He said that the situation has put us in a "real problem". 80 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca were due to be issued to European Union countries by the end of the March but it now looks like this figure will be around 31 million. However, it is now expected that not even half that amount will actually be delivered in that time. "Vaccine production in Europe develops too late and too slo... [Full Article...]
The federal government anticipated that there would be challenges supplying enough vaccine for all Americans even with Operation Warp Speed's efforts with vaccine companies to start producing doses even before any vaccines were authorized by the FDA. [Full Article...]
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday he and his counterparts from Denmark and Greece would pressure the European Medicines Agency to rapidly approve AstraZeneca's vaccine. 'We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes'. The EU had initially ordered up to 400 million doses of the AstraZeneca v... [Full Article...]
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 222,287 people previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered. The Waterloo Region COVID-19 totals now stand at 8,913 confirmed cases, 7,865 resolved, 187 deaths, 857 active cases, 41 hospitalizations, and 13 being treated in the ICU. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking European Union regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russian Federation to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received European Union approval. [Full Article...]
Fraser Health has declared four new COVID-19 outbreaks, including at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre, where 20 people in custody have tested positive. The Province says there are 4,331 active cases of the virus, 329 people are hospitalized, 70 of whom are in critical or intensive care. "We need to remember our risk remains high right now, even as we protect more and more people with vaccine", t... [Full Article...]
A drug containing monoclonal antibodies - laboratory-grown virus-fighters - prevented symptomatic infections in residents who were exposed to the virus, even the frail older people who are most vulnerable, according to preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership with the National Institutes of Health. [Full Article...]