The initiative is set to wind up at the end of this year, although some of its work will continue. With demand for COVID-19 vaccines dwindling, the partners are now working out how best to use the remaining cash – a significant sum in global health – alongside the donors who originally pledged it.
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Former prime minister David Cameron told an inquiry on Monday that Britain was prepared for a flu-type pandemic but not enough work was done in advance to confront an asymptomatic disease similar to COVID-19.
President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday unveiled plans to relocate the production of key medicines to France to tackle shortages of imported products, ranging from antibiotics to paracetamol, that came into focus during the COVID epidemic.
A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to meet on June 15 to discuss strain selection for this year’s COVID-19 booster shots, and regulators are expected to make their decision shortly afterward.
The amendment cuts the number of COVID-19 vaccines that the EU must buy and pushes the delivery deadline to 2026.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted a full approval to Pfizer’s Paxlovid, an oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment for adults at high risk of progression to severe disease.
Germany’s BioNTech said it was on track to introduce a COVID-19 shot by the early fall in the northern hemisphere that is adapted to currently dominant virus variants in line with recommendations by the World Health Organization.
The company said it filed a counterclaim alleging that Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech infringed on nine of its patents, broader than its original claim of three patents.
The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference today.
The company’s Branchburg, New Jersey location is the home of its largest diagnostic operations center in the United States.
