This page shows the latest Omicron news and features for those working in and with pharma, biotech and healthcare.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use as a single ... time. The partners have previously maintained that a fourth dose would ‘give
It has also recently outlined that an emergency surge vaccine response may be required if a new variant of concern emerges that has clinically significant biological differences from the Omicron variant.
the option to further protect their young children against more recently circulating Omicron sub lineages’. ... Spikevax vaccine, pre-clinical data for the booster and clinical trial data for its second Omicron-targeting bivalent booster, mRNA-1273.214.
Although the majority of the clinical evidence that is available for NICE to review is based on studies done before the emergence of the Omicron variant, the three treatments are recommended
vaccine manufactured for the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron subvariants?
The drug did show some effectiveness against some older Omicron variants in in vitro studies, NICE said, but the studies ‘showed clearly’ that it did not protect against the current common
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Communication speed will continue to be key, and last month the UK gave Moderna its first approval in the world for its updated COVID-19 booster vaccine directed at the Omicron
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This work is ongoing as the virus mutates; last month, it was announced that Pfizer and BioNTech had started clinical trials for a new Covid vaccine targeting the Omicron variant.
Although the Omicron variant of COVID-19 might have set back the full return to in-person meetings for now, there is no doubt that the future is hybrid.
What highlights have you had so far? I am lucky to have joined before Omicron took hold, and so was able to spend time across all of our UK offices getting
vaccination effort, which left us more vulnerable to Delta-driven COVID surges in the summer and fall of 2021, as well as the Omicron variant that showed up toward the end
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