Pfizer
They say that fortune favours the brave – and Pfizer may be about to prove this. Its COVID-19 vaccine, developed with BioNTech, has shown 90% clinical trial effectiveness. This is remarkable. Not only is mRNA an unproven technology, but in the past 10 years, flu vaccine efficacy rates have been between 19% and 60%. Pfizer developed the vaccine in less than a year (the chicken pox vaccine took 20 years) and with no government funding (they declined to be part of Trump’s Operation Warp Speed), led by Kathrin Jansen. This is a great victory for science, health and gender equality.
— Wayne Visser
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