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...“Governments were keen to buy the highly efficacious antiviral and had a difficult challenge of estimating demand with so many unknowns,” he said....
...The number of foreign nationals currently in detention in China over alleged national security transgressions is unknown....
...And the European Medicines Agency this week began a rolling review of the BioNTech/Pfizer variant-specific vaccine....
...The ominous code name refers to the as yet unknown illness expected to one day ravage the world in a repeat of Covid-19 — or perhaps inflict even worse damage....
...It’s of a similar size to PepsiCo, Pfizer and Toyota in spite of being little understood inside the UAE and largely unknown everywhere else....
...While the meetings have stretched for hours and Schwartz has arrived with detailed questions, his conclusions are unknown, people familiar with the matter told DD’s Antoine Gara and William Louch....
...In a trial with 10,000 participants who had all completed a two-shot Pfizer regimen, half were randomised to receive a further equal-strength dose of the shot, and half a placebo....
...Since then we know there was a race to have populations’ immunity boosted with further Covid shots — from Moderna and competitors such as BioNTech/Pfizer....
...But, just as the company surprised the world in 2020 by navigating the uncharted waters of mRNA vaccine development, Türeci says they are once again heading into “unknown territory”....
...This success, and similar efforts by German rival BioNTech and Pfizer, proved the potential of messenger RNA — a genetic material that transports messages from our DNA to protein-making cells within the...
...The only unknown is if they fail to vaccinate enough citizens, not because of availability but because of hesitancy. There are variants, like Delta, that can be transmitted way more easily....
...More than 2bn doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine have been delivered to date, and BioNTech is on track to post more than €10bn in net profit for 2021....
...In contrast, a universal jab would need to work on viral genetic sequences that are as yet unknown....
...Snipers kill six as violence erupts in Beirut Six people were killed and dozens injured after unknown gunmen opened fire on a rally by Lebanon’s powerful Hizbollah and others in Beirut, unleashing the worst...
...“The unknown unknowns weigh heavily on us. We’re always aware that history might come back and bite us.”...
...“The protection of Sinovac against newer variants such as the delta variant and under real-world conditions remains unknown.”...
...One of those is from an unknown source....
...As with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, CureVac’s jab uses messenger ribonucleic acid, but its mRNA is unmodified and uses lower doses — 12 microgrammes compared with Moderna’s 100mcg and Pfizer’s 30mcg...
...It is unknown whether she declared her condition before she received the vaccine at an “open day” last month....
...But Hunter urges people not to fall into excessively gloomy moods, despite all the unknowns. “Most credible people who understand virology say that Omicron is not going to bring Armageddon,” he says....
...The unknown person infected with the variant is thought to have conducted a home test on February 12 or 13....
...The J&J vaccine is easier to store than either the Moderna or BioNTech/Pfizer inoculations and requires only one dose, making it important for vaccinating people who are harder to reach....
...While the UK has not delivered finished vaccines to the EU, it has previously supplied crucial raw materials needed for the pioneering BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine made in the bloc....
...Scaling up a vaccine at the pace it had achieved was unprecedented “and we have made significant progress as we have moved forwards in the unknown”....
...immunisation for the UK government, said the whole world was attempting something without precedent: to persuade large numbers of healthy adults to be vaccinated in order to halt transmission — and the “big unknown...
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