Coronavirus Notebook: EMA Data Hack Aimed At 'Undermining Trust' In Vaccines, Russia Plans EU Sputnik V Filing Next Month

France has reported on side-effect reports concerning the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and the World Health Organization has warned that plans to provide global equitable access to coronavirus vaccines are at risk.

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“Someone clearly does not want Europeans to get vaccinated.” So says cybersecurity consultant Lukasz Olejnik, after the European Medicines Agency said that the data on COVID-19 vaccines that was unlawfully accessed on its servers was “manipulated” before being leaked on the internet.

The documents included internal and confidential email correspondence dating from November 2020 and relating to the evaluation processes for COVID-19...

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