Yahoo Finance Video Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective Mon, November 9, 2020, 2:17 PM GMT
Vaccine developer Pfizer and German partner BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90% effective. Dr. Dara Kass, Yahoo Medical Contributor & Columbia University Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine shares the details. Video Transcript
JULIE HYMAN: Now let's get back to the actual news here on Pfizer and just get a little more detail on what all of this could mean. We've already been hearing various comments from President Trump who tweeted this morning about the news. He said, the stock market's a big vaccine coming soon, report 90% effective, such great news.
And Joe Biden, the president-elect, who as we mentioned, is announcing a coronavirus task force, he came out with a statement on it. And he said, this is good news, but his statement on it was less effusive. He said, Americans are going to have to rely on masking, distancing, contact tracing, handwashing, and other measures to keep themselves safe well into next year. Today's news is great news, but it doesn't change that fact.
All right, let's bring in Dr. Dara Kass now. She is Yahoo Medical Contributor and Columbia University Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. And you just need to unmute yourself, sorry, Dr. Kass. So I would ask, I guess, first of all, about how long it's going to take to, you know-- this has not been approved yet, this is a good step, but it's not approval. So what can we expect now in terms of the timeline sort of to Joe Biden's point there about, you know, we still have a ways to go before this is gone?
DARA KASS: Yeah, I think that's actually a really good opportunity to think about leadership style and what it means in the middle of evolving information. This information is excellent. It's not just good, it's excellent. It means that 90% of the people who are novel to the virus, who had no exposure, were protected by the combination of the two vaccines that they received, which is extraordinary. It's also an interim study, meaning that it has-- it's the data in the middle of their phase three trial, and that we expect them to hopefully have enough data at the completion, somewhere around November, December, to apply for this emergency use authorization. ref yahoo,
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