Competitiveness
This section feature research, opinion and progress reports on how the Czech Republic compares to other EU countries economically. It includes analysis of international rankings such as the WEF and World Bank.
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NIH Launches Clinical Trial to Test Antibody Treatment in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Study Aims to Determine Safety and Efficacy of Experimental Monoclonal Antibodies.
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UNYP partners with Perlego to bring free digital textbooks to its students
From September 2020, UNYP will be subscribing to the Perlego textbook platform. This partnership between UNYP and Perlego provides unlimited free digital textbooks to students that allows everyone to continue learning safely anywhere and at any time. Students and faculty will have free access to over 300k book titles, with the goal of 100% access to diverse course readings for graduate and undergraduate programs.
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How Pfizer and BioNTech are moving with safety and speed to develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine
Since Pfizer and our collaboration partner, BioNTech, begun our mission to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, safety has been our guiding principle every step of the way.
At the same time, given the urgency of the global pandemic, we continue to move at record-breaking speed. We recently started the phase 2/3 safety and efficacy trial for our lead vaccine candidate, approximately three months after we started the phase 1/2 safety and immunogenicity trials in Germany and the United States for our four initial vaccine candidates. Progressing from the start of clinical testing for a vaccine candidate in small numbers of trial participants to a large-scale efficacy trial is a process that can usually take years, sometimes even a decade.
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