Here’s a rough idea of when you can expect to get Pfizer’s breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine

[Andy Meek]

• HHS Secretary Alex Azar has given a rough outline regarding how and when the Pfizer vaccine to fight COVID-19 will start being distributed.
• In an interview with NBC's TODAY show, Azar said among other things that Pfizer is preparing to have 20 million doses of the vaccine ready by the end of this month.
• Moreover, Azar said there should be enough of the vaccine available for widespread public vaccination campaigns to be underway by the spring of 2021.

Good news has been so scarce and hard to come by during the global coronavirus pandemic which, according to the latest Johns Hopkins University data, has now resulted in more than 10.2 million infections in the US and almost 240,000 confirmed deaths. Researchers have been working at a breakneck pace to develop and commercialize a vaccine in record time, and a few days ago we began to see the fruits of an endeavor that normally takes years to pull off.

The Pfizer vaccine that you've probably read or heard about by now is starting to look like the breakthrough that everyone has been hoping for. Just a few days ago, the company released the interim Phase 3 results for its mRNA coronavirus vaccine, developed together with the German company BioNTech, which revealed a stunning 90% efficacy rate. Just as promising, Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla said in an interview that there appear to be “no safety concerns” so far for the vaccine. And now, thanks to an update shared by US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, we're starting to have a better idea of when Americans will start receiving their doses of the Pfizer vaccine (which will require two doses, given three weeks apart).

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