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Pfizer and Biontech: results of the vaccine candidate "ermutigend"
The Mainz-based Biopharma company Biontech and the US group Pfizer will have the first results of their Tests in the U.S. for a vaccine against the new Coronavirus as "ermutigend" referred to. In all 24 subjects, which was administered in two injections of the drug candidate had been found after four weeks of antibody against Sars-CoV-2, informed the company on Wednesday. Serious side effects were not found to be the active ingredient. Biontech co-founder and chief Ugur Sahin called the preliminary data is very encouraging. They showed that the vaccine candidate "an immune response with neutralizing antibodies in humans induce kann".
Except in the US Biontech is an opportunity to test potential vaccines in Germany. It was in this country as the first company in the approval of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute.
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