FDA panel recommends approval of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for emergency use

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In a statement after the vote, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the company was “pleased” with the vote, “and if the FDA issues an authorization, stand at the ready to bring this vaccine to people in the U.S. in an effort to help combat this devastating pandemic.”

U.S. officials say they are prepared to distribute the vaccine within 24 hours of authorization. Initial doses will be limited as manufacturing ramps up, with officials predicting it will take months to immunize everyone in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated.

Pfizer has said it plans to ship 50 million vaccine doses this year, enough to inoculate 25 million people. The vaccine is expected to be distributed in phases, with the most critical U.S. workers and vulnerable people getting it first. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided states with an outline that recommends prioritizing health-care workers and nursing homes first, but states can distribute the vaccine as they see fit.

U.S. officials plan to continue watching for any adverse reactions to Pfizer’s vaccine in the health-care workers and nursing home residents who receive it, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, said during the agency’s meeting Thursday. Officials will use a text-messaging system, called v-safe, which is intended to provide early indications about possible adverse reactions from the vaccines...

Pfizer’s vaccine uses messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology. It’s a new approach to vaccines that uses genetic material to provoke an immune response. Late-stage clinical trial data shows the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing Covid, is safe and appears to fend off severe disease. To achieve maximum effectiveness, the vaccine requires two doses taken about three weeks apart.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/pfizer-covid-vaccine-fda-panel-recommends-approval-for-emergency-use.html

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1. GOPers will love this - "states can distribute the vaccine as they see fit"

(OT, keep getting 403 Forbidden)

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2. ...

Me, too. At different clicks -- sometimes to post, or to reply to an OP or a downthread comment. Weird.

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3. 403 is a radical liberal leftist socializmness PLOT!!

Will any states move GOP legislators or guv'nahs ahead of health care workers in the vaccine line?

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4. We'll never know unless they're seen showing their vax card to get into RW official events.

It would be interesting for someone to keep a record of the shipments once they get inside state lines, just to see what black market levels will drag this country further toward shit hole level.

I don't think I can take another year of this. 403 Forbidden is nothing in comparison.

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5. GOP governors who called it a hoax will suddenly declare themselves "essential".

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6. Yeah. Essential Trumpists. Essential to the corporate autocracy they bow to, along with Mammon.