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DECEMBER 14, 2020

ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay, with Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ’ s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Thursday, December 17. billion worth of vaccines. This would be a very good thing.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine as early as Saturday after its advisory panel cleared the way for the start of a national campaign to inoculate Americans and stem the spread of COVID-19. Who is first in line? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

2, 2020 – Britain became the first Western country to allow emergency use of a coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, after approving Pfizer’s candidate in the race to inoculate millions of people around the globe. But there are daunting obstacles to the vaccine’s delivery to the masses. WEDNESDAY, Dec.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

And I think we’ll see a significant reduction” in the virus, Biden told CNN. Britain First to Approve Emergency Use of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. And it has stirred up a global debate about how to balance the dire need for a vaccine against the importance of looking for clear signs that a vaccine is safe.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Though coronavirus cases have exploded recently, with new infections topping 1 million a week, a far smaller proportion of people who get the virus now are dying from it. ” Britain First to Approve Emergency Use of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. But there are daunting obstacles to the vaccine’s delivery to the masses.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

1, 2021 — As America’s vaccination campaign begins to gain momentum, a promising sign has emerged: Federal data shows that coronavirus cases in nursing homes have declined over the past four weeks. The country recorded 17,584 cases in nursing homes during the week ending Jan. MONDAY, Feb.1,

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The TAK-620-303 (SOLSTICE) trial (NCT02931539) is a multicenter, randomized, open-label, active-controlled trial comparing eight weeks of treatment with either maribavir or investigator assigned treatment (IAT) in transplant recipients with CMV infection refractory or resistant to existing antiviral treatments (i.e.,

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JANUARY 12, 2021

“Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic will require a combination of public health measures, vaccines and therapeutics. “Additionally, as expected, the virus continues to mutate, with the possibility of developing resistance to any one antibody. Schleifer , M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Regeneron. ” The U.S.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

24, 2020 – At least thee new COVID-19 vaccine candidates are already in the pipeline, will a roll-out expected early in the new year. “These are immune responses, so if you feel something after vaccination, you should expect to feel that. Vaccines work to fight disease by producing an immune response within the body.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Eli Lilly expanded its ongoing BLAZE-4 study to include Vir’s monoclonal antibody in the trial. Data published last week showed that bamlanivimab significantly reduced COVID-19 risk for nursing home residents in a Phase III trial. . Food and Drug Administration to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The clinical evidence from Regeneron’s outpatient trial suggests that monoclonal antibodies such as casirivimab and imdevimab have the greatest benefit when given early after diagnosis and in patients who have not yet mounted their own immune response or who have high viral load. “The Yancopoulos, M.D.,

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JANUARY 24, 2021

With a presidential inauguration and a federal holiday, it wasn’t an enormously busy week for clinical trial news, but there was a fair amount, nonetheless. Gritstone Oncology , based in Emeryville, California, announced that it is advancing development of its own second-generation vaccine against COVID-19. Read on to see.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The clinical evidence from Regeneron’s outpatient trial suggests that monoclonal antibodies such as REGEN-COV2 have the greatest benefit when given early after diagnosis and in patients who have not yet mounted their own immune response or who have high viral load. .” Yancopoulos , M.D.,

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JANUARY 26, 2021

“Notably, the 70 percent decrease in risk of hospitalizations or death seen in this Phase 3 trial of bamlanivimab and etesevimab together is consistent with the reduction in risk of hospitalization or ER visits seen with bamlanivimab alone in the Phase 2 trial. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Across 1,035 patients, there were 11 events (2.1

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Food and Drug Administration said Thursday night that it will move quickly to authorize the emergency use of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine after one of its advisory panels voted to give its blessing to the shot. “Following today’s positive advisory committee meeting outcome regarding the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

experts announced Sunday which Americans will be next in line receive a COVID-19 vaccine, health officials worldwide worried about a new strain of coronavirus that appears to spread faster than before. The two latest groups in line for a vaccine number roughly 50 million. The new COVID-19 vaccines target that spiky protein.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

million doses of the approved Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines had been distributed across the United States by Monday morning, just 2.1 That’s far too slow a pace, said one official charged with spearheading the vaccination of Americans. million vaccination tally — compiled by the U.S. . THURSDAY, Dec.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Seeking to reassure a troubled nation, President-Elect Joe Biden received the first dose of the two-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Biden said, “I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it’s available to take the vaccine,” the New York Times reported. The sequencing in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

and the Trump Administration were close to a deal on Tuesday that would get more of the company’s coronavirus vaccine to Americans in the coming year. So far, only two pharmaceutical companies — Pfizer and Moderna — have won emergency approval for their COVID-19 vaccines. WEDNESDAY, Dec.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Health Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday that the federal government would now release all available vaccine doses and told states to vaccinate every American aged 65 and older. “Every vaccine dose that is sitting in a warehouse rather than going into an arm could mean one more life lost or one more hospital bed occupied.”

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

Two years ago we posted on whether courts could exclude prospective jurors for cause because they weren’t vaccinated. O’Lear is a criminal case, in which the defendant was convicted by a jury of healthcare fraud (billing Medicare and Medicaid for fictitious mobile X-rays at nursing homes) and aggravated identity theft.

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