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Tough coronavirus curbs will last at least until Easter despite another stunning vaccine breakthrough yesterday. Oxford University confirmed its cheap, easy to store and simple to deliver jab had proved ‘highly effective’ in preventing illness. It could be approved by regulators in as little as a fortnight and start to be administered next month. Britain … Read more
The Covid vaccine wars: Pfizer now says its jab is 95% effective AND safe… days after Moderna’s breakthrough By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 11:56 GMT, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 12:04 GMT, 18 November 2020 Pfizer and BioNTech now claim their coronavirus vaccine is 95 per cent effective, upgrading an earlier … Read more
Volunteers on the Pfizer vaccine trial have compared the jabs side effects to a ‘severe hangover’ and said it left them with headaches, fever and muscle aches similar to the flu vaccine. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first jab left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab, but after the second the symptoms … Read more
Global shares soar after vaccine breakthrough: Rolls-Royce and British Airways owner IAG lead the FTSE 100 back above the 6,000 mark By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 November 2020 Britain’s bombed out stocks staged a dramatic recovery yesterday after Pfizer declared it has … Read more
Joe Biden implored Americans to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus Monday – saying that the good news of a vaccine developed by Pfizer being 90% effective is not going to stop ‘a dark winter.’ Biden spoke in Wilmington, Delaware, with Kamala Harris by his side, to unveil his own COVID task force. … Read more
Donald Trump Jr. has cast suspicion over the timing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘breakthrough’ which was announced on Monday two days after the election was called for Biden. Pfizer revealed on Monday that its vaccine was 90 percent effective among study participants and that it would produce 1.3billion doses- enough to treat 650million people – … Read more
Brexit breakthrough? The UK and EU ‘are close to a compromise on fishing rights’ that could allow them to seal a trade deal within WEEKS They are reported to be closing in on a compromise that would allow a deal Bloomberg said it would allow UK boats to catch more fish after December 31 But … Read more
‘We’re praying for a SECOND miracle’: Kate Garraway fights the tears as she tells of heartbreaking ‘breakthrough’ moment husband Derek mouthed he was in ‘pain’… giving her hope he’s ‘still in there’ after surviving Covid coma Garraway, 53, said it was ‘heartbreaking’ he was suffering but marked progress She explained throughout hospitalisation nurses have kept talking … Read more
A breakthrough drug for oesophageal cancer can give more than two years of life to some patients who would otherwise have just months to live, a landmark trial has found. Experts have hailed the treatment the biggest advance in decades for this cancer type, which affects the tube that connects the throat and the stomach. … Read more
A breakthrough in stem cell research allowed scientists to create ‘surrogate sires’ that produce sperm with the genetic traits of a donor animal. So far the new technique has been used to create pigs, goats and cattle with the sole purpose of producing sperm with the DNA of another male. Researchers from Washington State University … Read more