The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice will meet this week to consider and recommend who should get respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and COVID-19 vaccines. In the presentation slides to the U.S. agency, Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA) shared safety set data, with a cut-off date of March 8, 2024, based on the median of 18.8 months of follow-up. The data showed that vaccine efficacy fell to around 50% after 18 months on participants aged
The NHS has turned to US drugs giant Pfizer over its British rival GSK for vaccines against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), the winter infection known as the “silent killer” of the elderly.
As Dame Emma Walmsley stood up to deliver GSK’s latest set of results last month, she was brimming with confidence. This was “another excellent” period, she said, with sales and profits at the company booming.