1. Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine in its final trial results showed it had a 95 per cent success rate with no serious side effects against COVID-19.
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2. BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin in a conversation with Reuters TV said that the US’s Food and Drug Administration could grant them an emergency-use approval by mid-December.
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3. Moreover, conditional approval in the European Union for the vaccine could be secured in the second half of December.
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4. Tests had already shown that the success rate of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was far higher than the acceptable number by the regulators.
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5. In the trial, of the 170 volunteers out of 43,000 who contracted COVID-19, 162 were given a placebo, indicating that the vaccine was 95 per cent effective. Out of 10 volunteers who had severe COVID-19, one had received the vaccine.
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6. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was also found to be 94 per cent effective in people over the age of 65, which is considered as a high-risk group.
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7. As per the report, An FDA advisory committee plans to meet on December 8-10 to discuss the vaccine, although according to sources, the dates could change in future.
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8. According to officials, Moderna’s vaccine could get authorised within seven to ten working days of Pfizer receiving its EUA, with states ready to commence distribution in a matter of 24 hours.
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