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Isn't the article talking about the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer (with some help from Germany's BioNTech)?
by quicklime 6y ago
Isn't the article talking about the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer (with some help from Germany's BioNTech)?
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y agoLast time I checked, there were preliminary results from 3 different vaccines, with teams based in Germany (BioNTech - Pfizer), USA (Moderna in Cambridge Mass) and the UK (Oxford University - AstraZeneca). So the statement that "the USA has achieved several vaccines" _plural_ is sloppy wording and sloppy with the facts, and just as sloppy thinking. Pfizer in Germany: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/10/europe/biontech-pfizer-vaccine-team-couple-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/10/europe/biontech-pfizer-va...
- svara 6y agoThe company that CNN article is referring to is called BioNTech, not Pfizer, and they have been working on RNA based therapeutics (mostly as cancer treatments) for a long time. They started working on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in January 2020. As is often the case when a relatively small pharmaceutical company develops a new product, they teamed up with Pfizer to run the trials, manufacturing and logistics. The article misrepresents this in multiple ways.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago> The company ... is called BioNTech, not Pfizer, You are correct. They seem to be based in Mainz, Germany. Not American in any sense at all. I have edited grandparent comment to read "BioNTech - Pfizer", in similar style to "Oxford University - AstraZeneca"