The US hopes to have its coronavirus vaccine ready to administer by the end of the year | International

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases of the United States, has valued very positively the advances of the Pfizer vaccine, which this Monday announced that its efficiency is already 90%. The epidemiologist assures that it is developing as “a great business” and indicated that the United States could have the doses of the vaccine ready to be administered to people. before the end of the year, as indicated in an interview on CNN.

Spain estimates that it will receive the first doses of this vaccine as soon as it begins to be distributed. This has been stated by the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, this Tuesday in an interview in La 1: “We hope that this week or next week contracts can be signed with companies like Pzifer. If all went well, the doses would arrive early next year. We estimate that about 20 million doses of Pzifer will arrive, which could immunize about 10 million people. “The vaccine will be free, they will be distributed by the National Health System. In the best estimate, Spain will have to spend 658 million euros in vaccines if they buy the one from Pfizer. Moderna’s will be even more expensive ($ 37 per dose), so Spain can pay up to 1,100 million for that vaccine. That is what the pharmaceutical companies will earn only here: between 658 and 1,100 million euros of income in Spain.

Fauci, in the same interview with CNN, is positive and believes that he will remain in his position for the moment, he has no intention of leaving. President Donald Trump, who keeps trying contest their defeat in the elections, has publicly criticized Fauci on several occasions and She hasn’t spoken to him since the beginning of October.

Trump also criticized on Twitter that Pfizer had waited for the election results to make the announcement: “As I have said for a long time, Pfizer and the others would only announce a vaccine after the election, because they did not have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the FDA [la Agencia de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos] I should have announced it before, not for political purposes, but to save lives! “, he said. In addition, he went so far as to affirm that “If Joe Biden were president, he wouldn’t have the vaccine for another four years, nor would the FDA have approved it so quickly. The bureaucracy would have destroyed millions of lives! “The still president of the United States is convinced that the FDA has tried to prevent attributing the credit for this feat to Trump.

The success of Pfizer’s vaccine trial marks a breakthrough in the battle against the pandemic that has already killed more than a million people worldwide. Scientists, public health officials and investors welcomed such successful data from the large-scale clinical trial. A watershed moment that could help slow the progress of the pandemic.

Relevant regulatory approval is required to be able to mass-distribute the vaccine and to meet global needs Vaccines from various laboratories will be required. The initial results of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines are impressive, but scientists remain cautious. Meanwhile, hospitalizations for coronavirus in the US increase, reaching a record number of 59,000 patients.

Experimental antibody drug

The United States on Monday allowed the emergency use of the first experimental COVID-19 antibody drug in patients who are not hospitalized, but are at risk of serious illness. A laboratory therapy Eli Lilly & Co which has been shown to be beneficial in people over 65 years of age and with chronic diseases, the groups most affected by the virus.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that numbers are expected to continue to rise as winter progresses. Both the state and the city of New York have seen an increase in infections of more than 2% in recent days, in what Cuomo called a “new phase” of the spread of the coronavirus.

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