https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/pfizer-covid-november-20-2020#&_intcmp=hp1bt4,hp1btPfizer, Moderna to file FDA COVID-19 vaccine emergency usage as soon as Friday
HHS Secretary Azar: "Hope and help are on the way
By Suzanne O'HalloranFOXBusiness
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"Hope and help are on the way" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who said Thursday that Pfizer and its partner BioNTech "intend to file for emergency use authorization at the FDA" for its COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
Pfizer and BioNTech are currently in Phase 3 trials on the vaccine as is fellow pharmaceutical giant, Moderna.
"Two vaccines, each with 95% efficacy, rivaling the 98% efficacy of our measles vaccine. Produced in some of the largest vaccine clinical trials ever conducted in history. Over 40,000 patients in each of these clinical trials demonstrating good safety profiles," Azar said during the White House's Coronavirus task force briefing Thursday.
