EU Approval In View For Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine; EMA OKs Janssen Booster

Agency Also Clears Xevudy & Kineret, Advises On Use Of Pfizer's Paxlovid

It’s all go on the EU coronavirus front this week: three new therapies and another vaccine booster have been recommended for use, and a special session on the Novavax vaccine is to be held at the EMA next week. More production capacity has been OKd for three vaccines.

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The European Medicines Agency’s human drugs committee, the CHMP, will discuss Novavax, Inc.’s Nuvaxovid at an extraordinary meeting on 20 December where it could well advise that the coronavirus vaccine should be approved. The agency has also recommended the use of a booster dose of Janssen’s approved vaccine.

In addition, the CHMP has given the green light to two potential therapies for COVID-19, Xevudy and Kineret, and has...

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