#BionTech

David States

statesdj

Some push back on the notion that NIH spent hundreds of billions of dollars on basic research and therefore owns mRNA vaccine technology and has “march in” rights to dictate

Nsikan Akpan, PhD

MoNscience

Pfizer: Our COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective.Also Pfizer: The analysis involved *94* subjects, and we’ve provided zero data.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201109005539/en/%C2%A0Pfizer-and-BioNTech-Announce-Vaccine-Candidate-Aga

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

GOOD NEWS—a mutation seen in a few #SARSCoV2 variants doesn’t seem to harm the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, finding “no reduction in neutralization activity against virus”.HOWEVER—did not yet test for worrisome E484K

Gyöngyi Kovács

gyoengyik

If this is not a major supply chain disruption, what is? First, a change in policy from stock-piling second doses of vaccines to direct distribution without informing key players. (1/5)https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

Promising early results for the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, but would like to see full details of safety and efficacy.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325767520092102659 We obviously don't have much detail about the results yet, but

Mark_Coughlan

Mark_Coughlan

The news from Pfizer is great, but it's not just about fighting Covid. The Pfizer candidate is an mRNA vaccine, the tech to produce them didn't exist until recently. If

Stefan Leifert

StefanLeifert

Warum läuft das Impfen in Deutschland und EU so langsam an? Hat die EU bei der Impfstoff-Bestellung versagt? Nicht alles ist optimal gelaufen, aber die Alternativen waren schlechter. Ein Thread

Bojan Pancevski

bopanc

Some facts on EU vaccine procurement:1. The EU only ordered 200m doses from @BioNTech_Group & @pfizer on *November 11,* when it was already behind in the queue (the US ordered

(((Howard Forman)))

thehowie

Some key points from the #Pfizer vaccine trial announcement today. 1. They anticipate having a median of 2 months follow-up in time to apply for EUA late in November. 2.

Ben Chu

BenChu_

Thread on vaccine profits There’s been some speculation from Wall Street about big potential profits for Pfizer and BioNTech from their Covid vaccine…1/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/10/pfizer-and-biontech-could-make-13bn

Robert Peston

Peston

I was puzzled by Jonathan Van Tan’s comment that we don’t know whether the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will prevent transmission of Covid-19 even if - as claimed - it has 90%

Dali L. Yang

Dali_Yang

China CDC Director Gao Fu made the strange claim recently that scientists and pharma companies in the West were not capable of developing a COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated SARS-2 because

Joe Miller

JoeMillerJr

BREAKING: @BioNTech_Group’s vaccine found to be 90% effective in protecting against Covid-19, vastly exceeding regulatory criteria, and putting it on track for approval in the EU and US within

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

Alright. A quick round-up of useful threads on the Pfizer vaccine results and what they could mean.First port of call: @statnews which - as usual - has probably the best

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

1/ If we had more vaccines we could bring an end to the deaths and lockdowns.We could have produced these vaccines last year if governments had taken the risk to

MI6 ROGUE®

mi6rogue

This will be buzzing around tomorrow the #CovidVaccine has not got enough data on any possible effects on fertility. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/940565/Information_for_Heal

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