{"id":96713,"date":"2020-11-09T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96713"},"modified":"2020-11-09T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:21:01","slug":"a-fantastic-development-stat-news-covid-19-vaccine-from-pfizer-and-biontech-is-strongly-effective-early-data-from-large-trial-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96713","title":{"rendered":"A Fantastic development&#8211;(Stat News) Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement \u2014 and relief \u2014 in the face of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine is the first to be tested in the United States to generate late-stage data. The companies said an early analysis of the results showed that individuals who received two injections of the vaccine three weeks apart experienced more than 90% fewer cases of symptomatic Covid-19 than those who received a placebo. For months, researchers have cautioned that a vaccine that might only be 60% or 70% effective. <\/p>\n<p>The Phase 3 study is ongoing and additional data could affect results&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/11\/09\/covid-19-vaccine-from-pfizer-and-biontech-is-strongly-effective-early-data-from-large-trial-indicate\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mPdGZj8OpE\">https:\/\/t.co\/mPdGZj8OpE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; STAT (@statnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statnews\/status\/1325766418604961793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement \u2014 and relief \u2014 in the face of the global pandemic. The vaccine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96713\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96717,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96713\/revisions\/96717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}