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Australia must work to avoid 'vaccine nationalism', former top bureaucrat warns
18 May 2020 - A former top bureaucrat has warned the international race to develop a vaccine against the novel ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2020
COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners emerge as rollout debate rages
18 May 2020 - Governments and drug makers are weighing how to roll out coronavirus vaccines, including reserving the first ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2020
Coronavirus vaccine could be ready in a year: EU medicine agency
14 May 2020 - A vaccine to counter the new coronavirus could be approved in about a year in an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2020
Russia says search for a coronavirus treatment should not be a medical ‘arms race’
14 May 2020 - Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has been funding Russian development and production of the drug favipiravir, an anti-influenza ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2020
Moderna receives FDA fast track designation for mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) against novel voronavirus
12 May 2020 - Finalizing protocol for Phase 3 study of mRNA-1273, expected to begin in early summer of 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2020
COVID-19 update: FDA takes new actions to accelerate development of novel prevention, treatment options for COVID-19
11 May 2020 - Today, the U.S. FDA took important actions to help accelerate the development of prevention and treatment options ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2020
Pricing of COVID-19 treatments and coronavirus vaccines
11 May 2020 - At least 250 drugs and 95 vaccines are currently being investigated (mostly pre-clinical) in relation to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2020
COVID-19: Health Minister David Clark announces more medicines, vaccines in $160 million PHARMAC budget boost
10 May 2020 - Health Minister David Clark has rejected claims he and other Government ministers have been "gagged", as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 May 2020
Influenza vaccines released for 2020 season
8 May 2020 - Six influenza vaccines are available in Australia in 2020. All of these vaccines are quadrivalent, which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 May 2020
The equitable distribution of COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines
7 May 2020 - Scientists from across the globe are racing to develop effective vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
Australia lacks vaccine making capacity, Defence report warns
6 May 2020 - Australia lacks the facilities and know-how to make its own pandemic vaccines, a report to government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
World leaders donate to COVID-19 vaccine funding drive
5 May 2020 - Experts says $20 billion needed to vaccinate global population. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
Pfizer and Biontech dose first participants in the U.S. as part of global COVID-19 MRNA vaccine development program
5 May 2020 - Pfizer and BioNTech ramping up manufacturing capabilities to further increase production capacity in 2020/2021. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
Bill Gates donates $10 million to Australian trial of immune-boosting vaccine
5 May 2020 - Bill Gates has donated $10 million to an Australian trial of a vaccine that researchers hope ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
COVID-19: Australia’s pledge to $12 billion virus fight, WHO issues vaccine warning
5 May 2020 - Scott Morrison has promised more than $352 million as part of a global coronavirus vaccine fundraiser, but ...