In his biography of renowned vaccinologist Maurice Hilleman, Paul Offit describes eight doors opened by previous scientific discoveries that enabled Hilleman to develop the mumps vaccine. He now sees the opening of another door with the creation of COVID-19 vaccines: the administration of vaccines to pregnant women.
Pandemic Perspectives
One year on from the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, editors across Informa Pharma Intelligence publications are taking a closer look at its impact and possible lasting implications for the biopharma and medtech industries.
Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE and Moderna, Inc. excluded pregnant women from their COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, as is...