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Modern Vaccine

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COVID-19 Pfizer

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The Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was the first mRNA vaccine authorized for emergency use, grante...

COVID-19 Moderna

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The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy a...

COVID-19 Johnson

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The Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine used a modified adenovirus vector,different from the mRNA v...

COVID-19 AstraZeneca

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The Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was developed by scientists at the University of Oxford Jenn...

COVID-19 Sputnik

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Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute in Moscow, was registered by the Russian gov...

COVID-19 Sinovac

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Sinovac developed CoronaVac using an inactivated whole virus approach. The vaccine was authorized in...

COVID-19 Novavax

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Novavax developed a protein subunit vaccine using recombinant spike protein and a proprietary adjuva...

RSV Vaccine

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Respiratory syncytial virus RSV vaccines were decades in development. RSV causes lower respiratory i...

COVID Novavax Detail

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The Novavax NVX CoV2373 vaccine uses a recombinant spike protein produced in insect cells with a pro...

Covaxin

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Covaxin was developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research...

Novavax 2024

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Novavax experienced a dramatic turnaround in 2024. After years of struggling to bring its COVID vacc...

RSV Nirsevimab

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Nirsevimab Beyfortus is a long acting monoclonal antibody that protects infants from RSV. Technicall...

Dengue Vaccine Philippines

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The Dengvaxia controversy in the Philippines was one of the most damaging vaccine safety scares of t...

HPV Vaccine Japan

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Japan suspended active recommendation of HPV vaccine in June 2013 after media reports of complex reg...

Vaccine COVID Ba 2

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The Omicron BA 2 variant emerged in early 2022, followed by BA 4 and BA 5. These variants showed sig...

Vaccine COVID Kids

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COVID vaccine authorization for children progressed in stages. The FDA authorized Pfizer for ages 16...

Vaccine COVID Long COVID

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Studies suggested that COVID vaccination reduced the risk of long COVID, with estimates ranging from...

Vaccine Bivalent Real World

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Real world effectiveness data for bivalent COVID boosters showed moderate protection against symptom...

Vaccine SARS Cov 2 Origin

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The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains debated. Two main hypotheses are natural zoonotic spillover from a ...