Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine through 6 Months
Author(s) -
Stephen J. Thomas,
Edson Duarte Moreira,
Nicholas Kitchin,
Judith Absalon,
Alejandra Gurtman,
Stephen Lockhart,
John L. Perez,
Gonzalo Pérez Marc,
Fernando P. Polack,
Cristiano A. F. Zerbini,
Ruth Bailey,
Kena A. Swanson,
Xia Xu,
Satrajit Roychoudhury,
Kenneth Koury,
Salim Bouguermouh,
Warren V. Kalina,
David Cooper,
Robert W. Frenck,
Laura L Hammitt,
Özlem Türeci,
Haylene Nell,
Axel Schaefer,
Serhat Ünal,
Qi Yang,
Paul Liberator,
Dina B Tresnan,
Susan Mather,
Philip R. Dormitzer,
Uǧur Şahin,
William C. Gruber,
Kathrin U. Jansen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa2110345
Subject(s) - medicine , adverse effect , vaccine efficacy , vaccination , placebo , confidence interval , covid-19 , randomized controlled trial , pandemic , clinical trial , immunology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , alternative medicine , pathology
BNT162b2 is a lipid nanoparticle-formulated, nucleoside-modified RNA vaccine encoding a prefusion-stabilized, membrane-anchored severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) full-length spike protein. BNT162b2 is highly efficacious against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and is currently approved, conditionally approved, or authorized for emergency use worldwide. At the time of initial authorization, data beyond 2 months after vaccination were unavailable.
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