Lowdown on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine
/ 15 November 2020

Lowdown on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine

The recent announcement of a promising Covid-19 vaccine is good news. But don’t get too excited, cautions Simon Allison: other more affluent countries have already bought up most of the doses, and we do not own the expensive technology necessary to store and transport it

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/ 8 June 2007

Nigeria sues Pfizer over child drug trials

The Nigerian government is suing the world’s largest drug manufacturer, Pfizer, for £3,5-billion in damages for allegedly carrying out illegal trials of an anti-meningitis drug that killed and disabled children. The children died or suffered serious side effects when the antibiotic, Trovan, was administered in Kano during a meningitis outbreak in 1996.