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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The world stock markets have just celebrated the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential elections of the United States (Pilpres). He managed to ‘bend’ incumbent Donald Trump.
Biden won not only the American public vote, but also the electoral vote. Based on calculations Associated Press, Biden won 50.6% of the votes (75,193,022) while Trump only won 47.7% (70,804,968).
In the Electoral College, which determines which candidates can advance to the White House, he leads with 290 votes while Trump has 214. To become president of the United States, the candidacy must obtain 270 votes.
Not only that, but other good news about the development of the corona vaccine (Covid-19) also emerged. The vaccine developed by Pfizer, an American company in collaboration with Germany’s BionTech, is said to be 90% effective in preventing corona without dangerous side effects.
Quoting CNBC International, Pfizer President and CEO Albert Bourla said the ultimate efficacy of the vaccine is said to be safe. “The first results of the phase three clinical trial of the vaccine indicate the ability of our vaccine to prevent Covid-19,” Bourla said on Monday (September 11, 2020).
The two companies plan to propose emergency use of the vaccine to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the third week of November 2020. Pfizer and BioNTech plan to produce 50 million doses of the Covid vaccine. -19 in 2020 and 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
Previously, several experts had estimated the effectiveness of the tested vaccine to be only 75%. The final phase of clinical trials took place in July 2020.
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