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Behind Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, a husband-wife dream team

Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of the German biotechnology company BioNTech. (ARCHIVE) Frankfurt: The positive data on the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer Inc is an unlikely success for the married couple behind the German biotech company, which has dedicated their lives to harnessing the immune …

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Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective in phase 3 trial

Protection in patients was achieved seven days after the second of two doses and 28 days after the first, according to preliminary findings. A vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech was 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing phase 3 trials, the companies announced Monday. Protection in patients …

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