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8:11 am: Experimental vaccine begins human testing in the US
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced that its experimental coronavirus vaccine, BNT162, began human testing in the United States.
Pfizer, which is working alongside German drugmaker BioNTech, will test the potential vaccine on adults between the ages of 18 and 55 in the first stage before moving on to older groups, the company said. It hopes to test up to 360 people.
The effort by Pfizer and BioNTech is one of several working toward a potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19. There are more than 100 vaccines in development globally as of April 30, according to the World Health Organization, with at least eight vaccine candidates already in human trials. —Berkeley Lovelace Jr.