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When the Pfizer Covid Vaccine in Italy? This is the question that many are asking after the news bounced in all the media90% efficient of this vaccine, developed by the American pharmaceutical giant together with the German BioNTech.
Pfizer also announced that there could be 50 million doses available by the end of the year, but based on current projections for mass vaccination, we may have to wait until next year. Let’s see when the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine in Italy and in the world.
Covid: when is the Pfizer vaccine launched in Italy?
The Phase 3 The Pfizer vaccine trial is coming to an end and the widespread results are encouraging. However, the full safety data for obtaining an Emergency Use Authorization (US) from the FDA will not be released sooner. third week of november.
Countries are vying to be the first to receive stocks of coronavirus vaccines, and it is unclear how Pfizer will distribute the first doses. BioNTech founder and CEO Ugur Sahin told the Financial times that the two companies will use a fair approach that could prioritize areas where regulators grant formal approval for their launch.
Pfizer said Monday that up to 50 million doses of the vaccine could be available by the end of 2020, covering just 25 million patients (each will require 2 doses). Based on current projections, the company plans to produce globally up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021, enough to vaccinate around 650 million people.
The first doses will be distributed in the United States, while in the rest of the world and therefore in Italy the Pfizer vaccine it would arrive next year. A data Today there is no certainty or probable, unlike the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine, expected in our country in the spring. “Between the end of March and the end of April,” Minister Speranza announced.
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