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The trial results should allow the company to ask the FDA for approval of its vaccine in younger children, just as Pfizer nears a crucial decision for its shot in 5- to 11-year olds.
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The shot appears to generate an immuneresponse that matches or exceeds existing vaccines, but investigators aren’t yet sure how well it can prevent illness.
Data from a small Phase 1 trial showed the biotech's vaccine spurred immuneresponses to four common strains, although they didn't appear significantly greater than an already available shot from Sanofi.
The results position Pfizer and BioNTech to seek clearance in children as young as five years old. But the companies haven't yet shared data on a rare heart inflammation associated with their shot that's a concern for regulators.
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and South Africa, although the latter appeared to result in a weaker immuneresponse. Laboratory tests indicated the biotech's shot would still protect against virus variants detected in the U.K.
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QUICK READ: As COVID-19 vaccines enter Phase III trials one has to wonder just how transparent pharma companies will be with the data. Personally I would want to know as much as I can before I ask for the vaccine but I also know that greed can make people do stupid things and there is a lot of money at stake here.
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from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.
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