Pfizer says early analysis shows its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective

[Timester]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/healt...ive/index.html

November is the best 2020 month.

[PACOX]

Great news! It really is a huge step towards a vaccine. The speed researchers are working at is amazing and selfless. On top of that we may get the first approved human mRNA vaccine (this one is an mRNA one). Quite a few candidates are in phase 3

I feel like its being sensationalized for stock options but still good news. Hopefully, nothing crazy pops up in phase 3 and that they following through with procedures.

[Milchshake]

TIL:
The firm that invented the vaccine for Pfizer, Biontech, is a German medical startup founded by the children of Turkish immigrants.
Germany has long struggled with its openness to immigration, and its post-war program of 'guest workers'.
But one of those guest workers was Uğur Şahin's (CEO) father, who came to Köln to work at Ford. His son may now end a world-wide pandemic.


If all of the anti-immigrant and anti-multiculturalism assholes would opt-out of the vaccine. That would be ok.

[Easo]

Why is this in Politics and not the general Covid thread?

[Inuyaki]

TIL:
The firm that invented the vaccine for Pfizer, Biontech, is a German medical startup founded by the children of Turkish immigrants.
Germany has long struggled with its openness to immigration, and its post-war program of 'guest workers'.
But one of those guest workers was Uğur Şahin's (CEO) father, who came to Köln to work at Ford. His son may now end a world-wide pandemic.


If all of the anti-immigrant and anti-multiculturalism assholes would opt-out of the vaccine. That would be ok.

haha, agree


Technically the German government funded BioNTech with 375 million € to speed up the vaccine.
No idea if that is enough for politics, but I would think, this thread is misplaced here.

[Zan15]

Why is this in Politics and not the general Covid thread?

i'll give a reason, a big Yikes.....
Trump and Pence are already trying to take credit for it


https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...on-warp-speed/


Pfizer’s apparent vaccine success is not a function of Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’


In July, Pfizer did agree to partner with the government on distribution of a vaccine, leveraging what will be a massive, complicated effort run by the federal government to ensure that as many people as possible can be immunized. But its development efforts weren’t part of the government’s program.

[Rozz]

Please continue here.