{"id":11539,"date":"2020-11-10T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","slug":"covid-vaccine-first-milestone-vaccine-offers-90-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/10\/covid-vaccine-first-milestone-vaccine-offers-90-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Vaccine: First &#8216;Milestone&#8217; Vaccine Offers 90% Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The developers &#8211; Pfizer and BioNTech &#8211; described it as a &#8220;great day for science and humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their vaccine has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries and no safety concerns have been raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies plan to apply for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No vaccine has gone from the drawing board to being proven highly effective in such a short period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still huge challenges ahead, but the announcement has been warmly welcomed with scientists describing themselves smiling &#8220;ear to ear&#8221; and some suggesting life could be back to normal by spring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/amp\/health-54873105\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows. The developers &#8211; Pfizer and BioNTech &#8211; described it as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}