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...Two doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine provide 70 per cent protection against being admitted to hospital with the Omicron coronavirus variant, according to the first real-world analysis of protection against...
...Additional reporting by John Burn-Murdoch in London...
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The makers of Russia’s Sputnik V have said it was “more efficient against the Delta variant of coronavirus . . . than any other vaccine that published results on this strain so far”, but provided no evidence...
...The relative drop in efficacy against B.1.617.2 was similar for both vaccines: amounting to 6 per cent for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, and 10 per cent for Oxford/AstraZeneca....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
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...The problem comes from fires deliberately lit to burn forests and agricultural byproducts. Lung cancer and respiratory disease rates have soared. Corn and rice farmers burn off residue....
...executive pay, companies that took the money agreed not to lay off staff or axe routes until September 30 — even though air passenger volumes in the US have fallen by more than 90 per cent since March, and a V-shape...
...It led to some people buying Nike shoes — and others to burn them....
...Digital celebrities don’t have expensive tastes, they don’t burn out and they don’t let fame go to their head. In Korea, this is especially pertinent....
...Pfizer Japan and Himawari Life Insurance are among more than 20 companies doing so from next year....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...Paul Burns has re-joined Allen & Overy, the law firm, as partner in its corporate/M&A practice in New York. Burns joined the firm in 2001 from Cravath Swaine & Moore....
...It mustn’t burn or give off toxins. All of these things go into it and they’ll only make a few thousand of them.”...
...Take Pfizer. The US drug group’s $17bn acquisition of Hospira is not the game-changer that many investors had been expecting after Pfizer abandoned its ill-fated £69bn pursuit of AstraZeneca last year....
...The AstraZeneca approach did not crash and burn in this session. But it certainly did not take wing....
...That inevitably means cutting costs and job, although Mr Read insists a merger with AstraZeneca would not be followed by “slash and burn” cuts to research and development....
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...Ian Read, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, has insisted there would be no “slash and burn” cuts to AstraZeneca’s R&D....
...One senior banker says that, for all the talk of AstraZeneca’s appealing pipeline, the biggest driver behind a deal with Pfizer would be “slash-and-burn cost savings”....
...Hailo, a UK-based group, is reversing out of North America with nary a glance in its rear-view mirror as it burns rubber to make a swift exit. “Sorry, guvnor....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
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