[News] Pfizer says early data signals COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective

[bluck]

This is big news! One of the first steps to getting back to normal. Many were hoping for a vaccine at an effective rate of 50% like the Flu vaccine. 90% is truly incredible. The Dow jumped almost 5% as Wall Street moves away from tech to value and travel.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5794899

[Thor]

What about the autisms

[burn_this_city]

Great news. Trump probably pissed they held back on this until after the election.

[btimbit]

Certainly encouraging

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Thor

What about the autisms

This kind of comment is so counter productive. The correct argument for childhood vaccines should be that they have been around for years, have been proven to be extremely safe, and the risk of the disease is orders of magnitudes worse than the possible risks of the vaccines.

It shouldn't be that it is ridiculous that a vaccine could ever have dangerous risks. There should be a healthy dose of skepticism for the safety of a vaccine developed with the political and economic pressure associated with it.

[Ryan Coke]

I think it was a joke.

[Duruss]

Originally Posted by Thor

What about the autisms

We're good with it. I mean once your born Autistic whats a few more Vaccines.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Great news. Trump probably pissed they held back on this until after the election.

Pfizer said a month ago that they were applying for approval in November. They wouldn’t come out and say that if they weren’t pretty much sure that this was working. I like the angle that they intentionally withheld this until after to mess with his re-election hopes, but it didn’t happen.

[SportsJunky]

Originally Posted by Slava

Pfizer said a month ago that they were applying for approval in November. They wouldn’t come out and say that if they weren’t pretty much sure that this was working. I like the angle that they intentionally withheld this until after to mess with his re-election hopes, but it didn’t happen.

You don't think so? I think it might be exactly what they did.

[81MC]

The entire Covid subforum wasn’t the ideal place for this?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by 81MC

The entire Covid subforum wasn’t the ideal place for this?

It's big news. I dont go into the COVID forum so I'm glad its here.

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It's big news. I dont go into the COVID forum so I'm glad its here.

I have to admit I stopped going to the Covid posts after they got moved also.

[bdubbs]

Yes thanks for posting. This is great news.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

You don't think so? I think it might be exactly what they did.

I'd want to see some actual evidence. But the truth is, it'd be foolish for a company to take the risk that Moderna, J&J, Astra-Zeneca or one of the others gets their vaccine out first. This is worth billions to them to be first, and to take the risk of throwing that away because of political spite seems pretty crazy. I'm not saying that it couldn't be the case (I don't know all the connections between Pfizer and the Democrats), but from the outside it would look unlikely.

[FlameOn]

So what we have five different vaccine vendors now? AstraZeneca, Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax.

Wonder what the effectiveness on those ones are?

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by Slava

I'd want to see some actual evidence. But the truth is, it'd be foolish for a company to take the risk that Moderna, J&J, Astra-Zeneca or one of the others gets their vaccine out first. This is worth billions to them to be first, and to take the risk of throwing that away because of political spite seems pretty crazy. I'm not saying that it couldn't be the case (I don't know all the connections between Pfizer and the Democrats), but from the outside it would look unlikely.

I get the sense he was implying they waited until after the election was called as to not put down a November Surprise like Comey and influence the election at a late date.

[nfotiu]

There would also be a lot of skepticism if they made the announcement right before the election.

This was just an announcement of their efficacy results. Delaying that doesn't delay the approval I wouldn't think.

[Johnny Makarov]

I posted this before but here it is again. out of the 5 though Pfizer has the lowest amount of does purchased. .... only 20 million doses lol

I know people hate the Trudeau but they did a great job with this.

The Government of Canada has now signed agreements with the following companies to obtain vaccines:
Sanofi and GSK, which will supply up to 72 million of doses of their COVID-19 adjuvanted recombinant protein-based vaccine candidate.
Johnson & Johnson, which will supply up to 38 million doses of its vaccine candidate, Ad26.COV2.S.
Novavax, which will supply up to 76 million doses of its vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373.
Pfizer, which will supply a minimum of 20 million doses of its mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162. The government is negotiating with the company to have the agreement include options for obtaining additional doses.
Moderna, which will supply up to 56 million doses of its vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273.

[CroFlames]

We really won the lottery being born/live in this country folks.

[Northendzone]

pfizers stock today opened at 41.86, dropped to 38.38 and seems like it is climbing right now.

will be interesting to watch it over the NeXT few days.