Pfizer and BioNTech said that their COVID-19 vaccine was “100 percent” effective on 12-15 year-olds.
Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday said that their two-dose COVID-19 vaccine showed “100 percent” efficacy in 12-15 year-olds.
This, as these companies eyed approval for adolescents to get the vaccine before the next school year.
In a statement, Pfizer and BioNTech said that phase 3 clinical trials carried out on 2,260 adolescents in the US demonstrated “100 percent” efficacy and robust antibody responses.
According to Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla, they planned to submit those data to the US Food and Drug Administration as a proposed amendment to their Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the coming weeks and to other regulators worldwide as well, with the hope of starting to inoculate the said age group before the start of the next school year.
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“We plan to submit these data to (US regulator) FDA as a proposed amendment to our Emergency Use Authorization in the coming weeks and to other regulators around the world, with the hope of starting to vaccinate this age group before the start of the next school year,” Bourla said.
The chief executive of BioNTech said that the results showing high protection for teens were “very encouraging” given the trends they had seen in recent weeks regarding the spread of the B.1.1.7 variant (UK COVID-19 variant).
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Meanwhile, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. on Tuesday said that the United States had promised the Philippines that it would receive initial COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by American pharmaceutical companies as early as May 2021.
“I was told by Ambassador Romualdez that he just came from an appointment with the State Department and they promised that the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, or Moderna [vaccine] – we will have an early delivery by May,” Galvez said.
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