The partners Biontech and Pfizer want to apply for emergency approval for their corona vaccine in the USA.
Delivery should start within 24 hours of approval.
The partners
Biontech
and
Pfizer *
want to
apply for
an emergency approval of their
corona vaccine *
in the
USA
on Friday
.
The
delivery
of millions of vaccine doses to
within 24 hours after admission
begin.
US immunologist
Anthony Fauci
described the
corona vaccines *
as "cavalry" in the fight against the pandemic *.
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Munich / Washington - In the past few days, several companies have reported great successes in developing their
corona vaccine
.
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
spoke on Thursday evening that a vaccine could be approved in Europe in December or "very quickly after the turn of the year".
The Mainz company
Biontech *
and its US partner
Pfizer
want to
apply for
state emergency approval
in the
USA
for their
corona vaccine
on Friday
.
Corona vaccine: USA wants delivery within 24 hours of approval
“We will be shipping millions of vaccine doses within 24 hours of FDA approval.
So my message is: Hope and help are on the way, "said US Health
Secretary
Alex Azar
at a briefing for the
Coronavirus *
Task Force of
the White House on Thursday.
The government hopes that if the decision is positive,
millions of doses of the vaccine
could be available before the end of the year.
Azar also
reported that it is expected that the American vaccine developer
Moderna will
also soon ask for permission for its vaccine.
He praised the work of the scientists.
"In the past two weeks we have seen
unprecedented historical news
about vaccines," said the US Secretary of Health.
Most recently, there were
more than 2,200
corona deaths
in just one day
in the
United States
.
Corona vaccine: "Operation Warp Speed" is intended to ensure rapid distribution
“The goal is to make this vaccine as convenient for people to distribute as the flu vaccine,” said
Azar
.
A
comprehensive distribution plan
, based on a public-private partnership, is already in place.
Army General
Gustave Perna
, head of this so-called
"Operation Warp Speed"
, assured that there would be
no delivery bottlenecks
.
“We can ship the vaccine doses anywhere a US state wants to give them.
You can go to one central location or 10,000 different locations, ”he said.
Around 100 million vaccine containers are already ready.
Once Emergency Use Authorization comes, "24 hours later, vaccines will be distributed to the American people and be ready for administration."
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- The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 19, 2020
Coronavirus: US immunologist Fauci describes vaccine as "cavalry" in the fight against the pandemic
The renowned US immunologist
Anthony Fauci
also spoke about the
corona vaccines *
at the briefing
.
"The speed of the process has not compromised security in any way," he affirmed.
Fauci rejected concerns that the development of
corona vaccines
should have been accelerated at the expense of tolerability and effectiveness.
The data from the studies on the vaccines were
judged
by
independent experts
who owed no one, not even the government.
Fauci
called on the American people to
continue to follow
the "simple"
measures
to prevent
corona infections *
.
You should wear masks, keep your distance and avoid crowds.
He described the effective
corona vaccines *
as the "cavalry" in the fight to contain the
pandemic
.
“When you are fighting in a battle and the cavalry is on the way, you don't stop shooting.
You keep going until the cavalry is there - and then you might want to keep fighting, ”said Fauci.
(ph) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network
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