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A report from the US Food and Drug Administration said that four people who received a placebo and two who received the Pfizer vaccine died.
In the United States, six people died during a vaccine trial, which was developed by the American company Pfizer and the German BioNTech, or 0.01% of all study participants. This is reported in the US Food and Drug Administration report (.pdf).
There were six deaths during the reporting period, according to the department. There were two deaths in the group that received the vaccine, four more in the group that received the placebo, the document says.
More than 43.4 thousand people participated in the vaccine test The report summarizes data from studies that were conducted from April 29 to November 14, 2020.
The first victim in the vaccinated group suffered from atherosclerosis and obesity. The volunteer died three days after the first dose of the drug. The second deceased participant in this group had heart failure 60 days after the second dose and died three days later, the report noted.
According to the study, of those who were injected with a placebo, two people died of stroke and heart attack. The causes of death for two more people in this group are being investigated.
Three of the six who died were over 55, according to the report.
Head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the Pfizer vaccine “very promising”.
Pfizer announced on November 18 that the BNT162b2 vaccine against COVID-19 is 95% effective.
Companies Pfizer and BioNTech They expect to produce up to 50 million doses of the vaccine in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. Pfizer has already sold about 82% of doses.
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