On Monday, the drug company Pfizer announced that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine had a 90% effective-rated based on early testing results.
“We’re in a position potentially to be able to offer some hope,” Dr. Bill Gruber, Pfizer’s senior vice president of clinical development said.
This is good news. COVID cases are exploding throughout the United States. The nation passed 10 million confirmed cases on the same day this report was released and has regularly eclipsed 100,000 cases per day. With the increase in the infection rate comes increasing hospitalizations and deaths.
Cases are climbing throughout Cardinals’ country.