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John’s research on text book efficacy, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244015612517
Pfizer/BioNTech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696
European Medicines Agency, December 29
EMA, Amsterdam based
Twenty seven member states all have a say
300 million doses ordered
(Moderna review Jan 12)
Pfizer European shots, 2021
Only then can individual states give authorization
FDA, meeting on the 10th December, (Moderna December 17)
UK first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
For rollout next week
UK has already ordered 40m doses, 20m people
10 m doses should be available soon
800,000 arriving in next few days
Two shots, 21 days apart
Few weeks for immunity to build
Manufactured in Belgium
Transport, -70C once delivered, it can be kept for up to five days in a fridge
Total development time 10 months
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency
EU Regulation 174, allows MHRA to give temporarily approval
Received application from Pfizer Bio N Tech, 23rd November
A ten day process
Who are they?
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency/about/our-governance
Boris Johnson
It’s the protection of vaccines that will ultimately allow us to reclaim our lives and get the economy moving again
Matt Hancock
People will be contacted by the NHS in turn
I’m confident now with the news today that from spring, from Easter onwards, things are going to be better and we’re going to have a summer next year that everybody can enjoy
NHS Chief Executive, Sir Simon Stevens
the largest-scale vaccination campaign in our country’s history
Vaccination centres in venues such as conference centres are being set up now
Chris Whitty
We can’t lower our guard yet
The list
Care home residents and staff
People over 80
Health and social care workers
Everyone over 50,
Pre-existing health conditions
UK, Moderna
Seven 7m doses by spring
Oxford University and AstraZeneca. That vaccine uses a harmless virus, altered to look a lot more like the virus that causes Covid-19.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/23/oxford-az-vaccine-efficacy-data