Vaccine Safety, Efficacy & Contrasts

There's growing consensus that offering the COVID-19 vaccine to as many people as possible may have more impact than holding back supplies to give recipients their second dose — but in Ontario, officials still plan to maintain the two-dose timeframe to ensure immunity.

At Yahoo Finance's All Markets Summit, Dr. Anthony Fauci outlines the key goals of COVID-19 vaccine candidates racing to the finish line.

Eric Topol talks with Paul Offit about the timing of phase 3 vaccine trials, the need for public trust, and what might not be known when a vaccine rollout begins.

Without the efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the COVID-19 crisis would almost certainly be worse. But is it worth what we may have lost?

Bill Gates had previously said a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in 18 months.

That number probably means less than you think it does---it might not help get the vaccine approved by regulators.

Anyone who falls on either side of the debate about vaccines' alleged potential to cause harm is sure to have heard the big news this week -- the unsealing of a whistleblower suit against Merck, filed back in 2010 by two former employees accusing the drugmaker of overstating the effectiveness of its mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine. The scientists claim [...]

Merck now faces federal charges of fraud from the whistleblowers, a vaccine competitor and doctors in New Jersey and New York. Merck could also need to defend itself in Congress: The staff of representative Bill Posey (R-Fla) -- a longstanding critic of the CDC interested in an alleged link between vaccines and autism -- is now reviewing some 1,000 documents that the CDC whistleblower turned over to them.

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