After an early focus on AstraZeneca and months of turmoil, the European Union is pivoting away from the company’s vaccine. It has reached agreement for a faster rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
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Worry Over 2 Covid Vaccines Deals Fresh Blow to Europe’s Inoculation Push
Confusion over AstraZeneca’s vaccine threatens to hurt the E.U. campaign just as it gathers momentum. And on Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson said it was pausing the rollout of its shot on the continent.
Slovakia Claims a Bait-and-Switch With the Russian Vaccines it Ordered
Slovakia says that Sputnik V doses it received did “not have the same characteristics and properties” as a version endorsed by a respected British medical journal.
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Covid-19 Vaccine
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
A ‘Game Changer’ for Patients With Esophageal Cancer
A drug that unleashes the immune system offers a rare glimmer of hope for those with a cancer that resists most treatments.
Why Supply Isn’t the Only Thing Stymying Europe’s Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout
Bureaucratic inertia, a diffusion of responsibility and logistical problems have seriously undercut vaccination efforts. In Italy, it’s the older population that bears the brunt.
Supply Isn’t the Only Thing Stymying Europe’s Vaccine Rollout
Bureaucratic inertia, a diffusion of responsibility and logistical problems have seriously undercut vaccination efforts. In Italy, it’s the older population that bears the brunt.
With a Police Raid and the Threat of Export Curbs on Vaccines, the E.U. Plays Tough
The bloc is tightening export rules in a bid to speed up its disappointing Covid inoculation campaign and stem political criticism.