Pfizer and BioNTech Receive Authorization in the European Union for COVID-19 Vaccine
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® (also known as BNT162b2) receives conditional marketing authorization from the European Commission; this milestone represents a global joint effort to advance the first authorized mRNA vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech are ready to immediately ship initial doses to the 27 EU member states
Pfizer and BioNTech previously announced an agreement with the European Commission to supply 200 million vaccine doses to EU member states; the EU also has an option to purchase an additional 100 million doses in 2021
The vaccine has now been granted a conditional marketing authorization, emergency use authorization or temporary authorization in more than 40 countries worldwide, including all 27 EU member states
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 6:04 am
POTSDAM Clarkson has loaned one of its Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) freezers to Canton-Potsdam Hospital to await the first arrivals of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. The vaccines must be stored at the ultra-cold temperature of -70 degrees Celsius, or about -94 Fahrenheit.
Clarkson’s ULT freezer comes from Biology Professor Susan Bailey’s Experimental Evolution and Bioinformatics Lab. This freezer normally holds bacteria and DNA samples from her evolution experiments.
“These experiments explore how bacteria evolve in response to different types of environments, including looking at the evolution of antibiotic resistance. We preserve and freeze the bacteria periodically over the course of an evolution experiment to keep a kind of fossil record of their different stages of evolution. When we freeze them at ultra-low temperatures, they are preserved in a way such that we can thaw and reanimate them at a later time for furth
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