Roger Connor, president of GSK Vaccines

Sanofi, GSK prep reg­u­la­to­ry fil­ings for Covid-19 vac­cine af­ter post­ing PhI­II, boost­er da­ta — but who will use it?

Armed with the fi­nal cut of Phase III re­sults on their Covid-19 vac­cine both as a pri­ma­ry se­ries and a boost­er, Sanofi and Glax­o­SmithK­line are fi­nal­ly ready to seek reg­u­la­to­ry au­tho­riza­tions.

In two sep­a­rate tri­als, the phar­ma gi­ants said their ad­ju­vant­ed pro­tein-based vac­cine demon­strat­ed “uni­ver­sal abil­i­ty” to boost neu­tral­iz­ing an­ti­bod­ies whether fol­low­ing mR­NA or ade­n­ovirus shots, as well as 57.9% ef­fi­ca­cy against any symp­to­matic Covid-19 dis­ease. Pro­tec­tion against mod­er­ate or se­vere dis­ease was bet­ter at 75% — and yet high­er against se­vere dis­ease and hos­pi­tal­iza­tions at 100%.

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