{"id":2069,"date":"2020-11-09T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2020-11-10T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:21:21","slug":"what-pfizers-landmark-covid-vaccine-results-mean-for-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/what-pfizers-landmark-covid-vaccine-results-mean-for-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Pfizer\u2019s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Press release, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine had 90% efficacy in preventing COVID-19 in an interim analysis of an ongoing Phase 3 trial. This is the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial to release Phase 3 efficacy data. The trial includes 43,538 participants, 94 of whom developed COVID-19. The press release did not indicate the number of cases accrued in the vaccine versus placebo groups. No serious adverse events have been reported for this two-dose vaccine. A <i>Nature<\/i> news article also covered the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><i>Press release downloaded Nov. 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201109005539\/en\/\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201109005539\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Callaway. (Nov 9, 2020). What Pfizer\u2019s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic. Nature. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-020-03166-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-020-03166-8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Press release, not peer-reviewed] Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine had 90% efficacy in preventing COVID-19 in an interim analysis of an ongoing Phase 3 trial. This is the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial to release Phase 3 efficacy data. The trial includes 43,538 participants, 94 of whom developed COVID-19. The press release&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/what-pfizers-landmark-covid-vaccine-results-mean-for-the-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}