Biggest vax flex yet... Big pharma Pfizer and German biotech BioNTech said their jointly developed COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective in Phase 3 trials — that's huge. For reference:
Please get it mRN-ASAP... If Pfizer's vax gets FDA-approval, it would be the 1st mRNA vaccine ever approved for human use. Unlike OG vaccines (which use a weakened virus to generate an immune response), mRNA ones teach cells to destroy the virus.
Pfizer has a big leg up... if others have to compete with a 90% efficacy rate — that's highly attractive to vax-buying countries, even though Pfizer's vax comes with more rollout challenges. Moderna seems the most likely to get similar results (because: #mRNAlife). Pfizer's planning to request FDA emergency use authorization in late November. With approval, Pfizer says it can make 50M doses in 2020 and 1.3B in 2021.