Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by BioNTech, Pfizer and Fosun Pharmaceutical.

The vaccine is given by injection. It is an RNA vaccine made of nucleoside-modified mRNA which is meant to create spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.

Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Media

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  A US soldier holding the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine

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  A Pfizer employee putting dry ice in a box to protect the COVID-19 vaccines during transport at the Puurs factory

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  Boxes containing the COVID‑19 vaccines at the Pfizer factory in Puurs

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  Syringes containing Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses

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  The Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine must be kept at extremely low temperatures to ensure effectiveness, roughly between −80 and −60 °C (−112 and −76 °F).

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  Cumulative incidence curves for symptomatic COVID‑19 infections after the first dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine (tozinameran) or placebo in a double-blind clinical trial (red: placebo; blue: tozinameran)