Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
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Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#2>> The company has developed specially designed, temperature-controlled shippers for the BNT162b2 vaccine candidate, which can maintain recommended storage conditions (-70°C ±10°C) up to 15 days. Each shipper contains a GPS-enabled thermal sensor to track the location and temperature of each vaccine shipment. Once thawed, the vaccine vial can be stored for up to 5 days at refrigerated (2 - 8oC) conditions.
I read somewhere they already have 20 million doses ready to shipped once they get the approval. Wonder what is the capacity of each of these specially designed shippers and how the logistics of the eventual vaccination are going to be handled?
But this is surely an interesting problem to solve and I look forward to how they tackle it.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#3Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#4Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
Is your question whether the research and release of a vaccine nearly the entire world has been tirelessly either working on or waiting for "feels rushed"?
I mean, what did you expect?
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#5Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
Because there is an ongoing global pandemic killing people and economies.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#6Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
Because delaying it would entail thousands of extra deaths.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#7Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
My understanding is they got a huge boost from a sudden flood of funding for mRNA research and the partially done testing for vaccines for related diseases that went away with containment measures.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#8Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
You can't rush Stage III of vaccine trials.
95% with a p of < .0001 is unheard of in Vaccines. This is an amazing feat for science.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#9Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
I guess, from a business perspective, a vaccine manufacturer would seldom get a chance or a time like this. We are seeing history in making.
Literally the whole world is holding its breath for a vaccine to arrive.
Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
#10Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?
It is rushed, hence the emergency-use authorization.
In settings like nursing homes, with a 16% case-fatality rate, a vaccine with no reported safety concerns at the 0.003% level or better sounds real good.