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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:06 AM Nov 2020

U.K. Set to Be First to Clear Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is poised to become the first country to approve Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, ahead of a long line of countries waiting for protection from the coronavirus.

Clearance is possible as soon as early next week, according to a person familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the process is confidential.

The U.K. had long signaled it would move fast on any promising vaccine candidate. Russia and China have cleared vaccines for general use, but they’re unlikely to be adopted in the U.S. and Europe.

British doctors were put on standby for a possible rollout before Christmas. The government invoked a special rule allowing the U.K. drug regulator to bypass its European Union counterpart as the country prepares for the Brexit transition period to conclude at the end of this year. And the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency started its own accelerated review.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/u-k-set-to-be-first-to-clear-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine/ar-BB1brZmY?li=BBnba9O



This will be interesting to see what kind of logistical hurdles there are to rolling out the Pfizer vaccine given the extreme requirements for storing it. It seems like some countries like India are just writing it off, because they do not have the infrastructure to transport it.

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U.K. Set to Be First to Clear Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine (Original Post) TomCADem Nov 2020 OP
Good to read. a la izquierda Nov 2020 #1

a la izquierda

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1. Good to read.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 07:54 AM
Nov 2020

I actually heard this on the news over here this morning. I am so, so grateful that I left the US when I did. While the UK's response has been a disaster in some respects, I feel far safer here. In the town where I live, which is in a fairly conservative part of England, I've yet to see one person without a mask in the markets.

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