Sanofi and GSK make timely entrance to Europe's COVID-19 booster vaccine battle

11 November 2022

There is a new COVID-19 booster vaccine in town, just in time for Europe’s fall and winter season.

While they may not have reached market with a vaccine at the height of the pandemic to compete with jabs from the likes of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (Nasdaq: BNTX), AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) and Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA), European pharma heavyweights Sanofi (Euronext: SAN) and GSK (LSE: GSK) have got there with a booster just in time for Europe’s upcoming colder months.

Their vaccine, VidPrevtyn Beta, is the first and only next-generation protein-based adjuvanted COVID-19 booster approved in Europe and was developed with US government funding. The approval was expected following a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use.

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