More Data Shows High Efficacy for Pfizer, BioNTech Vaccine

Nov 18, 2020

This post has been update to fix an error regarding the group in which the severe cases occurred.

An analysis of updated data indicates the experimental SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has a 95 percent efficacy, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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