Pfizer and BioNTech’s BNT162b2 Demonstrates 95% Efficacy in Preventing COVID-19

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• The primary efficacy analysis demonstrated that BNT162b2 is 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose. The study evaluated 170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 162 in PBO group vs 8 in the vaccine group
• The observed efficacy in adults over 65yrs. of age was ~94% and was well tolerated across all populations with ~43,000 participants, no serious safety concerns were observed
• The companies plan to submit the data within days to the FDA for EUA and share data with other regulatory agencies across the globe and expect to produce globally ~50M vaccine doses in 2020 and ~1.3B doses by the end of 2021

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