US to buy 100 million doses of potential virus vaccine COVID19
The US government has agreed to pay almost $2 billion for 100 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine, German firm BioNTech said on Wednesday.
The US government also has an option to purchase as many as 500 million additional doses, BioNTech added. BioNTech and Pfizer have narrowed their vaccine candidates down to two frontrunners and waiting for the green light to begin a mass trial involving 30,000 healthy volunteers, which may happen later this month.
Trials so far have shown that their treatment triggers "robust" antibody and T cell immune responses against the novel coronavirus, according to BioNTech.
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