After a long wait, the FDA finally confirmed on Tuesday that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is safe.
But it will be at least two more days before the vaccine is officially approved, which means Americans will have to wait until Thursday at the earliest to get the vaccine.
Democratic candidate Biden, who has formed a new government health team, said he intends to administer 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Americans within 100 days of taking office, and called on Congress to pass more funding to fight the public health crisis.
Biden said he would follow the advice of infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and that returning schoolchildren to school would be one of his top priorities during his first 100 days in office, when he would also ask the American people to wear masks.
British Seniors Have Been Vaccinated
At the same time, Pfizer’s vaccine has officially hit the road in the United Kingdom.
On Tuesday, a 90-year-old grandmother and 81-year-old grandfather became the first people in the world to receive the vaccine, and a large number of British people have since started receiving the Pfizer New Crown vaccine.
British politicians were ecstatic about the historic moment, and one even cried during a radio interview.
The nurse said, “It’s finished,” and the grandmother queried, “It’s finished?”
The nurse asked, “Did you feel that?” The grandmother replied, “No, no, no, no.” She smiled and said that the needle was the “best birthday present” she had ever gotten.
It is the most important thing to do,” she said.
The 80-year-old man was even more nonchalant, and reportedly didn’t say a word the entire time.
In the meantime, there’s been an uproar over the timing of its release across the U.S. The FDA’s approval means it won’t be available until Thursday at the earliest.
The FDA’s approval means that official vaccination won’t begin until Thursday at the earliest. Then it will take at least five more days, Dec. 15, before states start receiving their first doses and distributing them.
Under current regulations, nursing home residents and health care workers will be the first, but beyond that, there is no clear plan for the doses to be distributed.
The FDA scientists posted their analysis of the vaccine online after spending the last week reviewing it, and the UK is rushing to their distribution plan.
Dr. Forsythe had previously said that the U.K.’s approval was too quick, but later apologized for his rhetoric being misleading.
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Trump refuses to buy more vaccines?
Also yesterday the New York Times, reported that according to Pfizer, the Trump administration passed up the opportunity to buy more doses back in the summer, sparking much controversy.
But if you follow vaccine news, you should know that this news report is not accurate.
In fact, we have reported several times that the U.S. is buying vaccines, not just the Pfizer vaccine, but also the Monad vaccine, which has already published results from three phase III trials, and the Oxford vaccine in the United Kingdom.
Earlier Monad reports have noted that under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. government will have the option to purchase up to 400 million additional doses of mRNA-1273 from Moderna as part of Operation Warp Speed. the U.S. government announced that in keeping with its commitment to get the COVID-19 vaccine for free, Americans will receive mRNA-1273 for free. In keeping with the government’s practice of purchasing vaccines, health care providers may charge a fee for administering the vaccine.
In terms of overall population, although Americans are less likely than in countries like Canada and Japan, they are already among the top countries in terms of purchasing the New Crown vaccine.
In the end, we can judge for ourselves the purpose of the NYT news that the Trump administration refuses to buy more Pfizer vaccines, and the U.S. has been too lazy to spit out the anti-epidemic chaos caused by the party struggle for half a year.
The latest disclosure of vaccine information – facial paralysis attracts attention
Another news story that is making the rounds on the Internet today is about four people in the Pfizer vaccine group who developed Bell’s palsy, a temporary facial paralysis.
No one in human medicine currently knows exactly what causes Bell’s palsy, and in most cases it will heal on its own without medical intervention.
FDA regulators say there is no clear way to suggest that the vaccine causes Bell’s palsy, but warn that doctors should be aware of the alarming side effects and that Pfizer should continue to keep tabs on whether any other cases occur.
This time around, four of the 20,000 people who received the vaccine developed brief Bell’s palsy, but no one in the placebo reference group developed the symptoms.
However, the FDA believes that Bell’s palsy in four people after vaccination is as likely to occur in the general population as in life without symptoms, so there is no clear basis for suggesting that the four cases are related to the vaccine at this time, but will continue to monitor future cases.
How the Vaccine Works
Now that we’re talking about side effects, this is the most important question: how exactly does the mRNA vaccine work and what are the side effects?
mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine against infectious diseases. To trigger an immune response, many vaccines inject a weakened or inactivated bacterium into our bodies. mRNA vaccines are not like that.
Instead, the vaccine teaches our cells how to make a protein, or even a fragment of a protein, that triggers an immune response in our bodies. If a real virus enters our body, this antibody-producing immune response protects us from infection.
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine provides guidance to our cells to make a harmless “spine protein”. This spine protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is injected into the muscle from the upper arm. Once the instructions (mRNA) are located inside the muscle cell, the cell uses them to make a protein fragment. After the protein fragments are formed, the cell breaks down the instructions and gets rid of them.
Next, the cell displays the protein fragments on its surface. Our immune system recognizes that the protein does not belong there and begins to build an immune response and make antibodies, just as happens with natural infection with COVID-19.
At the end of this process, our bodies have learned how to prevent future infections. The benefit of mRNA vaccines, as with all vaccines, is that the vaccinated person receives this protection without the risk of the serious consequences of getting sick from COVID-19 infection.
Many of you may say, I understand the reasoning, but this vaccine is so new! I don’t dare to fight!
In fact, although covid-19 mRNA sounds brand new, the fact is that humans have been studying this vaccine for many, many years.
Researchers have been studying and working with them for decades. They have a growing interest in these vaccines because they can be developed in the laboratory using off-the-shelf materials. This means that the process can be standardized and scaled up, allowing the development of vaccines much faster than traditional methods of vaccine preparation.
Previously, mRNA vaccines have been studied for influenza, Zika, rabies, and cytomegalovirus (CMV).
So with the necessary information about the COVID-19 pathogenic virus in hand, scientists can directly design mRNA instructions, which means that the programmer code is written and just waiting for a change of data.
If you must say why not now, after decades of not coming out? That’s where you’ll find long, cumbersome procedures and an already monopolized market.
Vaccine Side Effects
In layman’s terms, all vaccines have side effects. We are all given different vaccines from birth to adulthood, and at the time of vaccination in the clinic, the doctor will be informed in writing of any side effects that may be regretted.
Generally speaking, the main side effects of vaccines are swelling, soreness, rash and fever.
The three New Canaan vaccines currently in the pipeline are no exception.
According to Pfizer, half of all participants between the ages of 16 and 55 said they felt fatigued, more than half said they felt a headache, more than a third felt chills, and 37% felt muscle pain.
Half of everyone over 55 felt fatigued, one-third had a headache, and one-fourth felt chills. Only 29% felt muscle pain.
Yesterday we reported on the side effects of the vaccine in a health care worker who had a fever of 105F.
Some of you criticized the editor for being too headline heavy, and the editor accepts the criticism.
Yesterday’s article was titled “Scaring” people not to get vaccines, but the actual content was that the nurse, even though she had a fever of 105F, wanted to show people through her case that vaccines may have different side effects, but this is the work of everyone’s immune system, so what she was more afraid of was not vaccines, but people’s fear of misunderstanding about vaccines.
We hope that everyone who chooses to get vaccinated will think carefully before they get vaccinated, understand the side effects and how vaccines work.
At the same time, vaccination is voluntary and different people have different risks, so please choose the vaccine according to your own situation.
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The year 2020 is finally over!
In the past, at the end of the year, lamenting the rush of the year, we always had a sense of sadness and reluctance.
But 2020 is too hard, and with all that has happened, I believe many of you, like my editor, have a sense of hope that it will pass.
We also hope that the vaccine will work soon in the new year, so that we can get back to our normal lives, in 2021!
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