Tagged: Pfizer

COVID-19 vaccines prevent spread of the virus too - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • May 13, 2021 •

• BioNTech,
• COVID-19,
• immunity,
• mRNA,
• New Zealand,
• Pfizer,
• transmission,
• Vaccine

Many people seem to be reading that our COVID-19 vaccine won’t prevent the spread of COVID-19 from one person to the next.1 If you’re worried about this, this one is for you. We now have evidence the vaccine reduces transmission, and a rough idea of by how much.2 Science is often about pulling different pieces of evidence together, in this … Read More

90% efficacy for Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is striking. But we need to wait for the full data - COVID-19

Guest Author • Nov 12, 2020 •

• COVID-19,
• mRNA,
• Pfizer,
• Vaccine

Harry Al-Wassiti, Monash University; Colin Pouton, Monash University, and Kylie Quinn, RMIT University German biotech company BioNTech and US pharmaceutical Pfizer announced on Monday promising early results from their phase 3 clinical trial for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These early results are what is known as an “interim analysis”. It’s an early look at the … Read More