UK becomes first country to approve Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, first shots roll out next week
Posted on AllSides December 2nd, 2020
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The United Kingdom has become the first Western nation to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, a landmark moment in the coronavirus pandemic that paves the way for the first doses to be rolled out across the country next week.
"Help is on the way," Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced Wednesday morning, after UK regulators granted emergency authorization for a vaccine made by US pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
A final analysis of the Phase 3 trial of Pfizer's vaccine shows it was 95% effective in preventing infections, even...
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