The brand names for all three vaccines were developed by theBrand Institute, a global leader in brand name and identity development. It partnered on over 75 percent of approved drug names in 2020. Pfizer’s Comirnaty was the first COVID-19 vaccine brand name created by the company...
The development of vaccines and therapeutics is one important part of the research agenda – but it is only one part. They will take time to develop, but in the meantime, we are not defenceless. There are many basic public health i...
Variants of concern, which include alpha, beta and delta, have shown to spread more easily, cause more serious disease, or dent the effectiveness of vaccines and other COVID-fighting tools. They’re more worrying than the so-called variants of interest — like...
A growing body of evidence on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19vaccinationindicates that the benefits of vaccination outweigh any known or potential risks of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy Recent studies have also shown that antibodies produced after COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy ...
Table 2 COVID-19 variants: Showing different names and their documentation Full size table Vero cell Sinopharm is working on two inactivated vaccines in cooperation with the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the Beijing Institute of Biological Products. Both of them are in phase-3 trials....
No data to assess safety and immunogenicity of concomitant administration of COVID-19 vaccine (Novavax) with other vaccines.However, ACIP states that COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines may be simultaneously administered to eligible patients. ...
WHO international non-proprietary names: the need to distinguish COVID-19 vaccinesdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00099-4Ursula LoizidesAkinola AdisaAna López de la Rica ManjavacasJames S RobertsonRaffaella BaloccoThe Lancet
The latest 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines have been updated to help protect people against the recent circulating Omicron variants JN.1 (Novavax) or KP.2 (Comirnaty, Spikevax).Although some people who are vaccinated can get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, it can help to keep...
Also, doing a rapid COVID-19 test to check for aninfectionprior to any large gathering with family and friends can help decrease transmission. It is of utmost importance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and get all the boosters based on your eligibility. COVID-19 vaccines plus boosters st...
While some vaccine ingredients have long and complicated names, many of them are already part of our daily lives. Some of them are even in our food. It’s important to know that clinical trials, with extremely strict legal requirements, verified the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. That in...