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PROMISING: The drug company’s results may bode well for a new corona vaccine. Photo: Gisle Oddstad
The drug company has now found a vaccine that is supposed to be more than 90 percent effective against the corona virus, according to the Washington Post.
According to the Washington Post, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech say their corona vaccine candidate is more than 90 percent effective in protecting people against the virus, compared to the placebo variant.
– I’d say this is a historic moment, says Pfizer’s director of vaccine research and development.
The statement is based on a preliminary analysis of the collected data.
The vaccine has been tested in patients who have not been sick before. So far, no serious side effects have been identified in the test subjects.
If results remain as good over a longer period of time, the vaccine may protect as well as other well-known childhood vaccines, such as the measles vaccine, writes the New York Times.
If the pharmaceutical company maintains the good results for two months, it plans to request an urgent authorization of the vaccine, so that the vaccine can be distributed as soon as possible.
They hope to be able to produce vaccines that can render 15 to 20 million people immune by the end of next year, writes the New York Times.
