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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

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
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