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COVID-19 Update: First COVID-19 vaccine approved in UK

On December 2, 2020 the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (“MHRA”) announced approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. According to a press release from the U.K. government: This was done using a regulatory process known as a ‘rolling review’. A ‘rolling review’ can be used to complete the assessment of a … Continue reading

COVID-19 Update: U.S. and U.K. Issue Joint Alert Regarding COVID-19 Research Cyber Threat

By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) and Jeff Wurzburg (US) on May 6, 2020 Posted in Coronavirus, General, International

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint alert on Tuesday that advanced persistent threat groups “are actively targeting organizations involved in both national and international COVID-19 responses.” This warning should be heeded by hospitals, health systems, pharmaceutical companies, and academic medical … Continue reading