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The Christmas card you’ve been waiting on! The peer-reviewed data on the @pfizer @BioNTech_Group COVID-19 trial has been published yesterday in the @NEJM.
Beautiful science and excellent results. I’ll thread some details below the full paper link
https://twitter.com/nejm/status/1337045319649996801
Vaccine thread 2/n: The 3 minute video summary is probably all most people need. https://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005933/full/?requestType=popUp&relatedArticle=10.1056%2FNEJMoa2034577
Vaccine thread 3/n:
43,548 adults
Half got 2 dose vaccine (21 days apart) & other half saline placebo.
within 2 months symptomatic COVID-19 infections occurred in 162 in the saline group versus 8 in vaccine group. The separation of these curves is a thing of beauty.
43,548 adults
Half got 2 dose vaccine (21 days apart) & other half saline placebo. within 2 months symptomatic COVID-19 infections occurred in 162 in the saline group versus 8 in vaccine group. The separation of these curves is a thing of beauty.
Vaccine thread 4/n:
What about side effects: Expected local reactions at injection site more common in vaccine group but most other things were similar
What about side effects: Expected local reactions at injection site more common in vaccine group but most other things were similar
Vaccine thread 5/n: Characteristics of the study & placebo groups. Well matched as should happen in a randomized trial.
Vaccine thread 6/6: So this is the vaccine being used now in the UK.
I would get it in a heartbeat today if I could
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Until then I’ll keep my mask on and my social distance.
Happy Christmas
I would get it in a heartbeat today if I could
.Until then I’ll keep my mask on and my social distance.
Happy Christmas