{"id":153673,"date":"2020-07-25T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/25\/covid-19-is-big-pharmas-chance-to-impress-but-wholl-do-best\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:05:38","slug":"covid-19-is-big-pharmas-chance-to-impress-but-wholl-do-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153673","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 is Big Pharma\u2019s chance to impress. But who\u2019ll do best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca and GSK both release results this week. But picking winners in the sector may be complicatedIt was the press announcement heard around the world: a potential Covid-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca had not only been \u201ctolerated\u201d by patients, but \u201cgenerated robust immune responses against the Sars-CoV-2 virus in all evaluated participants\u201d. The project will now proceed to all-important phase 3 trials in Brazil and South Africa to test if it actually stops infection.For a global population that has seen its movement curtailed and its health threatened, it was a welcome dose of good news. It is also a large feather in the cap for AstraZeneca, whose boss, Pascal Soriot, will unveil financial results for the first half of 2020 on Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/jul\/24\/covid-19-big-pharma-chance-to-impress-astrazeneca-glaxosmithkline-picking-winners\" target=\"_blank\">Covid-19 is Big Pharma\u2019s chance to impress. But who\u2019ll do best?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca and GSK both release results this week. But picking winners in the sector may be complicatedIt was the press announcement heard around the world: a potential Covid-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca had not only been \u201ctolerated\u201d by patients, but \u201cgenerated robust immune responses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}