Recent large-scale clinical trials have shown that the vaccine being developed by Pfizer against covid-19 is 90% effective, and may be available before the year end.
And the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger: the first provisional results on the effectiveness of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in people show that the agent developed by the North American pharmaceutical and the German biotechnology company protects 90% of the volunteers submitted to the tests. The manufacturers' analysis shows a much better performance than most experts expected - regulators said they would approve a vaccine as long as it was 50% effective, protecting half of those who received it.
According to the pharmaceutical company, the experimental vaccine did not cause serious side effects in the 43,000+ people involved in the phase 3 tests . "Today is a great day for science and humanity. These first results from the third phase of the clinical trial of the covid-19 vaccine provide initial evidence of our vaccine's ability to prevent" the disease, announced the president of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, remembering that this "fundamental milestone" is reached "at a time when the world needs it most", when new maximums of infected and deaths are being registered all over the planet.
Although it is possible that the effectiveness rate will change in the meantime, as the trial will continue, the discovery that 90% of infections have been prevented is an important step in combating the new virus. After the third week of November, the company will submit the vaccine to regulatory bodies for approval, which could mean that the first doses are administered to health professionals by the end of the year.
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Obviously there will be some vaccines that won't work or will have side effects as numerous laboratories are developing them very quickly. It is the job of the MHRA to test effectiveness and safety in the UK so it's good to see they are preparing.
I have done some work with them in a previous life and can confirm that they are highly professional and well respected.
Steve
Aren't you glad that a software company is recording the vaccination process therefore eliminating any possible ambiguity?
Too many people are already condemning any vaccine that might or might not come on to the market.
UK Government’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is expecting a high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction.
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED%3ANOTICE%3A506291-2020%3ATEXT%3AEN%3AHTML&src=0
"Short description:
The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed."
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-the-married-couple-behind-the-successful-pfizer-covid-vaccine-12128862
He's finally flipped.
I wonder if Vallance has sold his shares yet or he's waiting for GSK's shares to go up as soon as that government contract for 60 million doses is finalised.
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/11/11/covid-vaccine-revelation-sinks-like-a-stone-disappears/
What??
Meanwhile on TV a deadly, but at the same time overwhelmingly asymptomatic plague stalks the streets, but only between 11 and 5, and weekend afternoons.