The United Kingdom today approved its first COVID-19 vaccine, created through a partnership between Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX). The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval came after a “rolling review” in which assessment takes place as the packages of data become available from ongoing studies on a staggered basis. The idea is to…
U.K. to reportedly conduct human challenge trials with COVID-19 vaccines
British researchers plan to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with lab-grown COVID-19 viruses in order to test potential vaccines, according to a report today in The Washington Post. U.S. researchers have seen so-called human challenge trials as too risky, but U.K. scientists think it’s worth the risk if the challenge trials speed up the development of…