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Senators press Moderna CEO on COVID-19 vaccine price hike

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

Moderna faces criticism as it prices COVID vaccine at $130 per dose

Pfizer has said it’s considering a similar price for its vaccine.

Fortune · Mar 22, 2023

Prime Minister urged to raise pay outs for debilitating vaccine side effects

A Conservative former minister said the small number of people who suffer serious injury from vaccines need to be ‘properly compensated’.

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

How immune are we? Why answering this question is essential for post-pandemic life

The pandemic's formal end on May 11 marks neither victory nor peace: It's a cessation of hostilities with a dangerous virus that is still very much with us.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 21, 2023

Official Covid-19 advice ‘scared’ people into dishonestly jumping vaccine queue

Official Covid-19 advice which raised “fear levels” to encourage people to obey pandemic rules led people to act dishonestly and attempt to jump the queue for vaccines, a new study has found.

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2023

Moderna paid the US more than enough for COVID shot partnership, executive says

WASHINGTON — Moderna Inc. plans to tell U.S. lawmakers that it more than adequately compensated the government for its role in a COVID-19 vaccine partnership that brought the drugmaker billions of dollars, a central point in what’s likely to be a heated Capitol Hill hearing this week.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2023

Dr Fauci met with cheers and wild conspiracies as he goes door to door encouraging Covid shots

New documentary profiles leading public health expert’s long career in Washington

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2023

Vaccine makers preparing human bird flu shot ‘just in case’ of pandemic

Current risk of transmission from birds to humans remains low, but vaccine producers are ready to prepare a new shot “within months”

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2023

AFLW footballer Deni Varnhagen returns to Crows training after failed vaccination legal challenge

After more than a year on the sidelines, AFLW player and nurse Deni Varnhagen will return to active elite football, months after she failed in a bid to challenge the South Australian vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

ABC News · Mar 20, 2023

University of Queensland's COVID vaccine technology finally moves to human trial phase after 2020 false start

A human trial has been launched into the University of Queensland's second-generation COVID vaccine, more than two years after the original technology was abandoned amid patients falsely testing positive to HIV.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023