{"id":464622,"date":"2020-12-15T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=464622"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:15:25","slug":"newly-approved-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-arrives-at-rochester-464622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/newly-approved-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-arrives-at-rochester-464622\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"width: 85%; font-weight: bold; line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">Researchers and volunteers in Rochester have been involved in the testing of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine since May.<\/h2>\n<p>Late last week the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German pharmaceutical company BioNTech. A shipment of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine arrived at Rochester on Monday and was administered to 10 employees at Strong Memorial Hospital. The first person in Rochester to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, outside of a trial, was patient transport worker Carlos Rosa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"side-right\">\n<h3>&#8220;Hope for the end to this pandemic is on the horizon.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>\u2014Michael Apostolakos, chief medical officer, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Medical Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to share a fair amount of difficult news over the past 9 to 10 months and I\u2019m delighted to join with my colleagues to share this great news today,\u201d said Michael Apostolakos, chief medical officer at the URochester Medical Center, in a press conference on December 15. \u201cThe Pfizer vaccine has proven safe and effective in rigorous scientific trials involving tens of thousands of persons. Hope for the end to this pandemic is on the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning December 16, the Medical Center will open a clinic that will administer the vaccine to 200 employees every four hours. Apostolakos said additional shipments of the vaccine will be rolled out in phases, and his best guess is that the general public would be able to receive the vaccine between June and August of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we\u2019ll get enough supply that we\u2019ll get through the health care workers, get through the patients with co-morbid conditions, get through nursing home and nursing home staff, and sometime June to August, we\u2019ll get to the public,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that depends on supply and some things we can\u2019t control.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_464592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-464592\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-464592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-line.jpg\" alt=\"medical workers spaced apart waiting in line\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-line.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-line-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-line-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-464592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Respiratory therapist Wondie Endeshaw waits with other health care workers to receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Beginning December 16, the Medical Center will open a clinic that will administer the vaccine to 200 employees every four hours. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers and volunteers in Rochester have played a pivotal role in the testing of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine since May, when the first human studies were launched as part of a phase 1 clinical trial. In a collaboration between the Medical Center and Rochester Regional Health, Rochester\u2019s trial was led by Edward Walsh, a professor of infectious disease medicine at the Medical Center and a member of the Infectious Disease Unit at Rochester General Hospital (RGH) and Ann Falsey, a professor of infectious disease medicine, co-director of the Medical Center\u2019s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit, and a member of the Infectious Disease Unit at RGH.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester was one of only four sites in the US involved in this phase 1 study of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine. That trial evaluated four variations of the vaccine and the version that was tested in Rochester was selected to move into phase 3 trials in July. Volunteers in Rochester were the first in the nation to be dosed in the phase 3 clinical trial of the vaccine. Phase 3 marks the final stage of vaccine development prior to FDA approval, mass production, and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other vaccine in history has been given this much attention or this much work,\u201d Apostolakos said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that corners were cut with developing the vaccine, it was that so much more effort was made to do all the steps but in a very concise way that enabled us to get this out. It\u2019s a modern miracle of 2020; this couldn\u2019t have happened in 1920, but we\u2019re able to get it out. It\u2019s safe and effective and we\u2019re going to encourage people to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer\/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine study can trace its roots back to decades of research conducted at Rochester to improve the efficacy of vaccines and develop new vaccines against Hib, a bacterium that causes meningitis and pneumonia, and HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_464602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-464602\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-464602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-vial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-vial.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-vial-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-vaccine-vial-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-464602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers and volunteers in Rochester have played pivotal roles in the testing of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine since May. The US Food and Drug Administration gave the vaccine emergency use authorization last week. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The research behind the Hib vaccine led to the creation of Praxis Biologics, which was formed by Medical Center pediatrician David Smith in the 1980s as a start-up company. Praxis Biologics was eventually acquired by Pfizer and many of the scientists who worked at Praxis moved to Pfizer and helped establish the company\u2019s vaccine development division. The team at Pfizer continued to collaborate with researchers in Rochester. Subsequent technological and scientific advances made by Rochester researchers studying RSV, a respiratory virus, and seasonal coronaviruses, contributed to Pfizer\/BioNTech\u2019s current COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to know that some of the scientists who designed and have overseen the Pfizer research that has demonstrated that this vaccine works, live and work here in Rochester,\u201d said Robert Mayo, chief medical officer at Rochester Regional Health. &#8220;We can take pride in the fact that our leaders in this community have contributed to a worldwide vaccine that will change the course of this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"large-up-3\">\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/news\/story\/early-signs-indicate-coronavirus-vaccine-is-effective\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fea-pfizer-vaccine-update.jpg\" alt=\"nurse gives man a shot\" \/><strong>FDA Committee Votes to Approve Emergency Use of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">The development of the vaccine can trace its origins to decades of infectious disease research conducted at Rochester.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/covid-19-rna-coronavirus-research-428952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fea-rna-research-coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of coronavirus protein binding to receptor on human cell.\" \/><strong>COVID-19 vaccine: What\u2019s RNA research got to do with it?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">RNA research at the URochester provides an important foundation for developing antiviral drugs, vaccines, and other therapeutics to disrupt the global spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/news\/story\/urmc-recruiting-volunteers-for-phase-3-coronavirus-vaccine-study\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/astrazeneca-vaccine-trial.jpg\" alt=\"nurse takes patient's vital signs.\" \/><strong>Phase 3 AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine Study Reopens at URMC<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Medical Center is taking part in a phase 3 clinical trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers and volunteers in Rochester have been involved in the testing of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine since May. 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