Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, efforts have been made to develop safe vaccines around the world and several vaccines came in just 11 months after the onset of the pandemic. There are currently 6 vaccines under discussion. The World Health Organization approved the use of the Pfizer…
The Year Of The Vaccine
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January 06, 2021
As 2020 came to a close and the new year opened up, Covid-19 infection rates went soaring again in a second wave that included a new, apparently more contagious, strain of the virus.
Nevertheless, at the same time, a wave of optimism washed through world economies as vaccine excitement took hold, especially in the West. In December, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine got emergency approval and the EU, UK, US and Canada opened vaccination campaigns. News of government approvals and successful trials, video of frontline workers and political leaders getting injections, and above all the prospect of returning to business as before, inspired some revisions to growth forecasts. Capital Economics, for example, lifted its estimate for 2021 world GDP to 6.8%.
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Friday 8 January 2021, by Sharon Lerner
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla recently heaped praise on “the almost 44,000 people who selflessly raised their hands to participate in our trial.”
“Each of you has helped to bring the world one step closer to our shared goal of a potential vaccine to fight this devastating pandemic,” Bourla wrote in an open letter to volunteers who took part in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine research, which was conducted in Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and Turkey as well as the U.S. His letter was published on November 9, the same day Pfizer announced that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective at preventing the disease, and Bourla laid this considerable accomplishment at the feet of the medical volunteers: “You are the true heroes, and the whole world owes you a tremendous debt of gratitude.”
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Hopeful New Year: How countries, including India, have prepped for COVID-19 vaccine rollout in 2021
Over 12 billion doses have been reserved by countries in advance to secure its population from the dreadful COVID-19 disease. January 01, 2021 / 04:23 PM IST
As the New Year promises hope with the development of vaccines against novel coronavirus that struck the planet early last year, countries have been preparing to purchase doses in advance to safeguard their populations.
Over 12 billion doses have been reserved by countries with confirmed purchases of 8.6 billion doses and another 3.5 billion doses under negotiation even before they have received market approvals, as on December 29, 2020, data collected by Duke Global Health Innovation Center, suggests.