Pfiz­er, BioN­Tech say Covid-19 vac­cine is more than 90% ef­fec­tive, ex­ceed­ing ex­pert ex­pec­ta­tions and set­ting up an EUA sub­mis­sion late this month

For 10 months, the US and the world have won­dered and watched and wait­ed for when an ef­fec­tive Covid-19 vac­cine will ar­rive. Pfiz­er said Mon­day morn­ing that it has.

The Big Phar­ma and its part­ner BioN­Tech said that, on an in­ter­im look, their vac­cine was at least 90% ef­fec­tive in pre­vent­ing symp­to­matic Covid-19 cas­es. If the da­ta hold up, it would mean a pan­dem­ic in­oc­u­la­tion vast­ly more ef­fec­tive than an­tic­i­pat­ed through­out 2020, when ex­perts warned that the first vac­cines could be as low as 60% or 70% ef­fec­tive and the FDA in­di­cat­ed it was will­ing to ap­prove jabs that sur­passed the 50% mark.

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