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Pfizer, BioNTech first to test COVID-19 vaccine candidate on two continents

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May 5, 2020 9:50 PM UTC
Updated on May 6, 2020 at 4:40 PM UTC

The announcement Tuesday that healthy volunteers in the U.S. have received a candidate RNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech marks the first COVID-19 vaccine to enter clinical testing on two continents.

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX) completed the first dosing cohort of a Phase I/II trial of their BNT162 vaccine candidate in Germany on April 29. ...

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