[ad_1]
Tala Ghamrawi wrote on Asas Media:
The world woke up today with a wide international reception, specifically in the United States of America, with the announcement of the company “Pfizer” that it had reached the production of a vaccine against the Corona virus, 90% effective, according to the results of the third phase of the experiments. The World Health Organization announced that “the results of the Pfizer vaccine are very positive and the epidemiological situation may change by March 2021.”
The Minister of Public Health of the interim government, Hamad Hassan, announced that “Lebanon will be one of the first countries to benefit from the ‘Pfizer’ vaccine after its forthcoming approval by the World Health Organization.
He added: “The necessary correspondence for the transfer of the first batch of the cost of the vaccine was secured in coordination with the Minister of Finance, Ghazi Wazni, after the previous communication he had with ‘Pfizer’ two weeks ago led to the seizure of a amount of the vaccine for 15% of Lebanese. The Ministry of Health also booked from the Kovacs platform. The Global Vaccine Group Corona) an additional amount of the expected Corona vaccine for 20% of Lebanese, and for that an amount of four million and 367 thousand dollars has been transferred.
Member of the “National Committee for Communicable and Infectious Diseases” and a specialist in bacterial diseases, Dr. Abdel-Rahman El-Bizri, did not ask for urgency and told “Asas”: “Even Pfizer does not know when it will finish producing the vaccine. No there is doubt that there is a great development in vaccines “. There are vaccines that have reached advanced stages, and have entered the final (third) stages to test efficacy and safety. We, as doctors, insist on the issue of the vaccine on safety as effectiveness, because the vaccine is not a drug but a therapeutic intervention, that is, a change of plan (it is given to change the body’s immunity to an epidemic or A specific virus or bacteria). Despite the urgency of producing a vaccine to eradicate the Corona virus, we want in return to be sure of its effectiveness and safety. “
He added: “Pfizer today announced good news and good news in its statement. But no one can determine the time during which the vaccine will be ready and present. Today the only thing we can say and repeat is that Lebanon is in advanced positions in the negotiations to obtain good vaccines, but no “. Someone can link to a specific date. “
He continued: “Usually in every test to test the effectiveness of a drug or vaccine, tests are done to find out the medical reaction rate, that is, we challenge the body with a specific virus and monitor the body’s reaction to it. From a medical and scientific point of view, we say: any vaccine offers more than 50% protection. ” It is a vaccine that can be considered approved. But the protection here may be to prevent the disease or to mitigate its severity. Therefore, it is too early to talk about a vaccine that provides 90% protection. You have to take into account which human group has the effectiveness rate “.
In turn, the head of the National Health Authority, “Health is a right and a dignity”, Dr. Ismail Sukkariyah, explained to “Asas” that “vaccination still takes months to start the vaccination process, and the vaccines will not arrive to us soon and quickly, but will arrive in batches, as it has been known. Priorities for people who will receive the vaccine. “This was confirmed by the World Health Organization, which set next March as the date to” change the epidemiological situation. “
He continued: “The Pfizer vaccine today is in the third stage, which is supposed to be the experimental and final stage. The fourth stage remains, which is the stage of vaccinating people. And if complications arise, it can be withdrawn. Of course, this all happens after approval from the Food and Drug Administration (DFA). “
Sukkariyah concluded, stressing that he is not “convinced or accepted by the ambiguous statement of the company”, which he saw “needs more explanation”, stating that “there is no soon solution to the Korna crisis”. And he said: “The 90% that the company announced in its statement means effectiveness The vaccine during the experiments. These matters should be explained by the statement issued by Pfizer because this information is confidential. In Lebanon we have reserved vaccines from Kovacs (which is a joint global program of vaccines against the Coronavirus, developed by the World Health Organization, and includes 19 countries), and I am not aware of a quote His arrival in Lebanon and the US President, Joe Biden, confirmed that: Despite news of the Pfizer vaccine, it will be months before there is a widespread vaccination in the United States.
The former president of the “Lebanese Association for Microbial Diseases”, Dr. Zahi El-Helou, expressed his hope that this good news will be the beginning of our approach towards a solution to the Corona crisis. This vaccine announced according to studies has given effective results of 90%, and 90% means that of every 100 people who were vaccinated with the vaccine, 90 of them managed to acquire immunity against the Coronavirus. This is a very high number compared to the rest of the competitor’s vaccines and soon the “Pfizer” vaccine will be on the market. “
He continued: “I don’t know when it will arrive in Lebanon. We continue to suffer from shortages of medicines and even the flu vaccine, people have a hard time getting it, so how about the Corona vaccine?”
He concluded: “It is certain that the vaccine will initially reach European countries and America. This good news due to the positive results of the vaccine gives us hope for now to get rid of this virus and return to normality.”
* The US pharmaceutical company “Pfizer” announced in a statement that its vaccine against Corona is 90% effective according to the results of the third phase of the trials.
Pfizer expects it to be the first US drug maker to reveal successful data from the latest phase of the coronavirus vaccine trial, ahead of rival Modern. The Data Control Committee is scheduled to conduct its first vaccine performance evaluation after 32 trial participants were infected with the new Corona virus.
Albert Burla, CEO of Pfizer, said that by the end of the year, the company estimates that it will be able to supply the United States with 40 million doses of the Corona vaccine, and has agreed with her to launch the vaccine in March 2021, according to the newspaper. British “Daily Mail”.
[ad_2]
