15 november 2020
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In addition to the good news around the vaccine from Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, a second covid vaccine is also in sight.
The corona vaccine from the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is almost ready. The vaccine is in phase three, which means it is close to approval. This is reported by the Belgian CEO Bruno Holthof of Oxford University Hospitals in the TV program De Zevende Dag.
On Monday, Pfizer announced that it had produced a high-performance corona vaccine with its partner BioNTech. This led to a lot of optimism in the world and in the financial markets, because it seems that an end to the corona crisis is in sight. According to research results, the vaccine would protect nine out of ten vaccinated subjects against infection with the virus.
Holthof does not report percentages on the effectiveness of the vaccine. He emphasizes that the high degree of protection of Pfizer’s vaccine is also encouraging news for the other corona vaccines. ‘The vaccines will all elicit an immune response against that spine protein, which means that it was the right choice to put that first.’
Refrigerator
An important advantage of the AstraZeneca vaccine is that it is less difficult to store than the Pfizer vaccine. The latter vaccine must be stored at -80 degrees Celsius, while the AstraZeneca vaccine only needs to be stored in a normal refrigerator.
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