Pfizer says no COVID-19 vaccine data yet, could be week or more before it reports

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Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it does not yet have data from the late-stage trial of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Germany's ...

REUTERS: Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it does not yet have data from the late-stage trial of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Germany's BioNTech SE , and provided a timeline that makes its release unlikely ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election.Pfizer said there had not yet been enough infections in the 44,000-volunteer trial to trigger an analysis of whether or not the vaccine works.

"For us, the election is an artificial milestone," Bourla said on a conference call for the company's earnings."This is going to be not a Republican vaccine or a Democrat vaccine. It will be a vaccine for the citizens of the world."Pfizer hopes to be the first U.S. drugmaker to unveil successful data from a late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial, ahead of rival Moderna Inc . Pfizer and BioNTech launched their phase 3 study in late July.

"I think this means that the overall infection rate is a lot lower than Pfizer initially estimated," Loncar said.Dr. David Boulware, professor of medicine at University of Minnesota, said the study's participants may be more adherent to social distancing guidelines than the general population.

 

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