A study confirms that the Pfizer vaccine is 97% effective

The "Alliance of Epidemics" calls for the production of a vaccine to prevent any future pandemic within 100 days

A study conducted in Israel shows the additional effectiveness of the "Pfizer" vaccine, which improves the already known data about it.

Reuters

An international coalition to combat epidemics said yesterday that a "revolution" in technology helped scientists develop a vaccine to prevent the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), within less than a year, its pace must be accelerated, so that a vaccine can be produced to prevent any future pandemic within 100 days, while a study confirmed the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine by 97% against cases of "Corona" showing symptoms.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said that the next pandemic that may emerge may be worse than "Covid-19".

This came while the coalition launched a call for international donors to support a five-year strategy, costing $ 3.5 billion, to confront the risks of any pandemic in the future.

The chief executive of the coalition, Richard Hatchett, said at an online event that although "Covid-19" has claimed nearly 2.5 million lives so far, "We may not be so lucky next time."

“The (Covid-19) pandemic is not the first pandemic in the 21st century, and if we do not act now, we can be confident that it will not be the last.

There is absolutely nothing to prevent the next virus, which may appear, from being much more deadly ».

He said that governments, global health organizations, and other partners must make vital investments now in global health security and take advantage of the "revolution in vaccine science that was spurred by (Covid-19)."

He continued, "We must shorten each day, which we can shorten from every step of the process."

In order to reduce the vaccine development period to 100 days, the coalition said, researchers and pharmaceutical companies will need to exploit the potential of so-called rapid response program technology, such as the one that Pfizer-Biontech and Our Director have used in developing vaccines.

It will also require working with global regulators to simplify requirements for approval of vaccines, and link manufacturing facilities to allow rapid production of vaccines.

This comes at a time when the Pfizer-Bionic vaccine showed an effectiveness of 97% against cases of "Covid-19", which show symptoms, and the most severe forms of the disease, according to a study conducted in Israel and published yesterday, which improves the basically known data about this. The vaccine.

According to a statement by Pfizer-Biontech Laboratories and the Israeli Ministry of Health, the results, which were extracted from data related to people who received the vaccine in Israel, "constitute the most complete concrete evidence so far that shows the effectiveness of a vaccine against (Covid-19).

The study added that the vaccine is also effective by 94% in cases that do not show symptoms of the disease.

In the same context, the British government yesterday defended the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine against the emerging corona virus, after Denmark and Norway suspended its use, and confirmed its continuation of the vaccination campaign with these doses.

"We have made it clear that it is safe and effective," the prime minister's spokesman, Boris Johnson, told reporters.

And when people are asked to apply for it, they should do so with confidence. ”

He added, "In fact, we have begun to see the results of the vaccination program, in relation to the (decrease) of the number of cases registered throughout the country, the decrease in deaths and the number of cases that require hospital treatment."

Meanwhile, the Danish authorities announced the temporary suspension of the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, after patients developed blood clots after receiving the vaccine, and Norway followed suit.

A spokesman for Johnson said Denmark had stressed that there was no confirmed link between the vaccine and blood clots.

Last Monday, Austria announced the suspension of the use of a group of AstraZeneca vaccines, after the death of a 49-year-old nurse from "severe blood clotting problems", days after receiving the vaccine.

Four other European countries, namely Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg, have also suspended the use of vaccines from that group that was sent to 17 European countries, containing one million doses.

In response to a question about whether medical and scientific advisors in the British government are in contact with Denmark, a Downing Street spokesman said that exchanging information with foreign peers is a "routine practice" by experts.

In Washington, an epidemiologist and chief medical advisor at the White House, Anthony Fauci, hopes that the United States of America, which has been severely affected by the Corona pandemic, will soon have some normal life.

But on the first anniversary of the Corona pandemic, which prompted the authorities to impose lockdown measures across America, Fauci expressed his caution, sharing the most important lesson he learned last year, which is: «Never underestimate the seriousness of this virus».

- Fauci, on the one-year anniversary of the emergence of "Corona" in America: "Never underestimate the virus."

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