The rollout of potential new coronavirus vaccines have a more concrete timeline following the FDA's latest update regarding Pfizer 's (NYSE: PFE) recent authorization request . Late on Friday afternoon, the FDA announced a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will be held on Dec. 10. The group of independent experts will discuss Pfizer's request for emergency use authorization (EUA) of BNT162b2, a coronavirus vaccine candidate the big pharmaceutical company is developing in partnership with BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) .
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Pfizer submitted its request to the FDA following positive results from a clinical trial with over 43,000 participants. At an interim analysis, there were 162 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among volunteers that received a placebo and just eight confirmed cases among patients that received the vaccine. Efficacy appears consistent regardless of volunteers' age, gender, race, or ethnicity but with just eight positive cases there's only so much that can be inferred.
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FDA to Discuss Pfizer's Coronavirus Vaccine Authorization Request in December