Pfizer-BioNTech: Shot remains 91% effective after 6 months
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Pfizer-BioNTech: Shot remains 91% effective after 6 months
Reuters / Apr 2, 2021, 07:29 IST
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Pfizer Inc and BioNTech said on Thursday that their Covid-19 vaccine is 91.3% effective at preventing the disease, citing updated trial data that included participants inoculated for up to six months. The shot was also 100% effective in preventing illness among trial participants in South Africa, where a new variant called B1351 is dominant, although that rate was derived from a relatively small number of nine infections observed there, which were all in the placebo group, Pfizer said.
While the new overall efficacy rate of 91.3% is lower than the 95% originally reported in November for its 44,000-person trial, a number of variants have become more prevalent around the world since then. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the updated result, which includes data on more than 12,000 people full
INDIANAPOLIS â Why should young people, who are at low risk themselves of getting seriously ill or dying of COVID-19, get vaccinated?
Ask health officials and theyâll say itâs not just about protecting themselves from illness, but itâs a step toward reclaiming their pre-pandemic lifestyle and a way to protect their loved ones, both the very young and the very old.
Ask the Millennials and Gen Zâers who are already getting the vaccine themselves and, well, theyâll tell you pretty much the same thing.
âWe know so many people who are very thankful and excited to protect themselves and others. Few negative or undecided persons. The sooner we are all protected, the sooner get back to normal,â said Grace Caswell, an under-40 who works with the local St. Martinâs Healthcare organization. She was fully vaccinated earlier this year but her husband recently signed up for his first shot, too.
. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday night finally slammed the overcrowded conditions for immigrants at the US-Mexican border under President Biden as inhumane, horrifying, unacceptable and barbaric.
At one point during her virtual town hall meeting, the left-wing lawmaker called for reparations for some families.
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I think the people in New York s 14th Congressional District who voted for this socialist revolutionary, need their heads examined.
We have American Citizens in need and this lunatic takes the side of the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, disease carrying, disabled and criminals invading our border, and now wants to tax American Citizens to pay these invaders reparations .
More than 100,000 Connecticut residents scheduled appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday, the first day those 16 to 44 years of age were eligible to do so, according to Gov. Ned Lamont.
As statewide cases of the coronavirus disease continue to tick upward, all those in the state age 16 and older are now eligible for vaccinations, which experts believe are the key to eradicating the disease.
“We’re making very good progress,” Lamont said during a virtual news briefing.
He urged those who may have had difficulty scheduling an appointment to have patience, offering assurances that additional spots will become available over the next several weeks. Supplies of the vaccines continue to flow, he said, despite what people may have heard about a “hiccup” in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, resulting in the contamination of some 15 million doses that had to be discarded.
Health officials on Cape Cod are continuing to monitor a jump in COVID-19 cases in several towns.
The outbreak started on the Mid-Cape and has now spread to parts of the Upper and Lower Cape. Officials believe that the spike in cases is linked to the emergence of several variants of the virus in the region.
This third wave of cases seen in Barnstable County is being described as âmountainousâ compared to the rest of the state.
Given that case numbers continue to increase, Governor Charles D. Baker Jr. urged residents to celebrate religious holidays such as Passover and Easter with caution. He said people should not be âthrowing caution to the wind,â even as many people across the state are getting vaccinated against the disease.