To test the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in a “real-life scenario,” Pfizer says it will fully vaccinate everybody over 12 in the Brazilian city of Toledo.
Oct. 12, 2021 -- To test the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in a “real-life scenario,” the pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it will fully vaccinate everybody over 12 in the Brazilian city of Toledo.
Pfizer will work with local health officials, a hospital, a university, and the Brazilian vaccination program to monitor the population of 143,000 people for a year to see how long the vaccine is effective and whether it works against new variants,“Here we believe in science and we lament the almost 600,000 deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil,” Toledo Mayor Beto Lunitti said, according to theA similar test was conducted last winter and spring in the Brazilian town of Serrana, where almost all of its...
"The initiative is the first and only of its kind to be undertaken in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company in a developing country," Pfizer said in a statement.
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