CNN: Early Analysis Shows Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

‘This is indeed a momentous day’

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COHEN: “We’ve been waiting for the results, now the first set is here. This is from Pfizer, one of the first to begin their clinical trials and let’s take a look at what they found. They gave this vaccine to more than 40,000 people, and then they saw who got Covid and who didn’t. What they found is that 94 out of those tens of thousands of people actually did get Covid, but when they looked at them, they said wow, less than 10 percent of them got the vaccine, and more than 90 percent of them got the placebo, so more than 90 percent of those people got the placebo, that’s good news. That means that the vaccine protected those people. Now they haven’t yet applied to the Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization. They're going to wait until after next week, that's because some more safety data has come in. We haven’t heard any safety concerns with this vaccine so we’ll be interested to see what they learn next week. Now my friend and colleague Dr. Sanjay Gupta is interviewing the CEO of Pfizer right now and so we’ll learn more from him later what Dr. Bourla had to say.”

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