Vaccine Authorization

Dec 02, 2020

The UK has given emergency authorization for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, the Associated Press reports.

The firms announced last month that data from their late-stage clinical trial indicated their mRNA-based candidate vaccine has a 95 percent efficacy.

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