Today the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States is about to begin, “one of the most daunting public-health efforts in generations: swiftly distributing a Covid-19 vaccine across all 50 states, each of which will determine who gets priority.”
The WSJ also reported that the FDA announced that the first Covid-19 vaccine being considered for use in the United States has, “met the prescribed success criteria in a clinical study, paving the way for the agency to green-light distribution as early as this weekend.” This report also stated that “Pfizer is seeking what is known as an authorization for emergency use, a kind of interim clearance the FDA grants during pandemics to speed up the use of urgently needed medicines.”
The Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer pharmaceutical and BioNTech is awaiting a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to begin vaccinations and grant this vaccine emergency authorization. Data suggests that this vaccine has a 95% efficacy rate and was well tolerated in a trial composed of 44,000 individuals. Read more…..
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