America’s bans on travel from countries including the United Kingdom, India and China ‘don’t make sense’ for blocking the spread of COVID-19 variants, according to a former head of the Food and Drug Administration. Scott Gottlieb, who served as FDA commissioner from
Children as young as 12 could get Pfizer Covid jab when the new school year starts under new NHS plans to offer vaccines to secondary school pupils Trials under way to allow secondary school children to be given jab, said sources Plans
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine will protect against mutated Covid variants because it produces such a massive immune response, a study has claimed. Researchers at Imperial College London studied the impact of a single dose of the Pfizer jab against different types of virus
The Health Secretary announced at a televised Downing Street briefing Britain is already taking steps to bolster the UK’s protection against coronavirus ahead of an anticipated winter surge. Work is already underway to adapt the vaccines currently being administered to ensure they
UK has bought 60million more doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine to supply autumn booster jabs that will target mutated variants, Matt Hancock reveals Pfizer is one of the most used in Britain’s rollout and studies have shown it is the most effective
Health chiefs will decide TOMORROW whether under-40s will get alternative to AstraZeneca's Covid jab
Professor Anthony Harnden said officials were discussing making the change Officials may decide whether under-40s should also be offered an alternative to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in a crunch meeting tomorrow. Professor Anthony Harnden, who sits on No10’s jab advisory panel, said dwindling
Just one in four people suffer mild side effects after taking a coronavirus vaccine, real-world data has shown. Data from the ZOE Covid Symptom Tracking Study — a surveillance tool that tracks Britain’s outbreak — showed headaches, fatigue and fever were more
Hospital accidentally gives woman wrong second Covid vaccine 'in first error of its kind in Britain'
A hospital has accidentally dished out the wrong second Covid vaccine dose to a woman, in what is believed to be the first error of its kind in Britain. The patient — who wasn’t identified — turned up at the Great Western
Israel’s Health Ministry is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The ministry said it is investigating 62 cases of reported myocarditis that have occurred among the five million of its citizens who
Pfizer’s Covid-preventing pill could be available by the end of the year if human trials in the US and Belgium are successful. There are currently no drugs other than vaccines that can stop people developing Covid-19 – but if one is discovered