coronavirus vaccine

As Biotech companies around the world race towards and through vaccine trials, a group called “1 Day Sooner” is compiling volunteers who would be willing to risk their own lives for the greater good should they get the call. “I’m relatively young and healthy. I know for myself, getting COVID-19 is low risk, so I figured this is something I…

Peter Pitts, the former FDA Associate Commissioner, said industry, academia and government are working together to make an effective coronavirus vaccine available by early 2021. But the rollout is expected to be complicated, with more than one vaccine likely available and questions about which groups should be prioritized to get the vaccine first.

People on six continents already are getting jabs as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, testified to Congress on Tuesday that a coronavirus vaccine could be available as early as the beginning of 2021.

As work intensifies on potential coronavirus vaccines, rich countries are placing advance orders for the inevitably limited supply to guarantee their citizens are immunized first

While announcing a police reform executive order on Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered a mixed message that both praised members law enforcement as well as victims of police homicide, touted economic milestones, championed school choice “as the civil rights issue of all time in this country,” and mischaracterized the record of his predecessor.

The global race for a COVID-19 vaccine boils down to some critical questions about how much to rev up people’s immune systems — and whether revving it the wrong way could cause harm

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will overcome the coronavirus crisis with or without an effective vaccine, saying that the disease will “go away at some point” either way. “We think we’re going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future, and if we do we’re going to really be a big step ahead,” Trump told a reporter Friday at...

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, and Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the commander of United States Army Materiel Command, would lead the new initiative.

The coronavirus pandemic may continue into the latter half of the decade, a senior global health official has warned, as the death toll of the virus approaches the grim milestone of 300,000. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, told the Financial Times’ Global Boardroom webinar on Wednesday: “I would say in a four to five-year timeframe, we...

Oxford University released data on their coronavirus vaccine research that shows a reduction in instances of coronavirus and pneumonia in exposed monkeys.

U.S. Immunologist Dr. Rick Bright testified that the country should be concerned with the supply chain once a vaccine for coronavirus is developed.

When pressed by Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, during a Senate hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response, Dr. Anthony Fauci denied that either President Obama or President Trump were at fault for not having already created a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Dr. Fauci also confirmed that it is “more likely than not” that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready within...

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday announced 40 countries have united to pledge billions of dollars to help find a vaccine to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

British scientists developing a potential vaccine for the coronavirus hope to see a “signal” as to whether their vaccine candidate is working by June, an official involved in the effort said Sunday on “Meet the Press.”

China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences began the second phase of a clinical trial on Sunday for a coronavirus vaccine.

When President Donald Trump went to the National Institutes of Health for an update on progress toward a vaccine for COVID-19 back on March 3, many of those who sat behind the presidential seal with him were white men well known in the worlds of science, medicine and, now, national anxiety control: vaccine and infectious disease specialists like Dr. Anthony...