With the number of new cases in the US averaging more than 100,000 per day another surge of coronavirus infections has now firmly taken hold across much of the country. As dire as this third surge may be however, there is some good news. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer released a promising look at their coronavirus vaccine trial results Monday that said the vaccine may be more than 90% effective at preventing COVID-19.
Dr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician in Salisbury, is Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today to discuss this third surge in the pandemic and the positive vaccine trial results announced by Pfizer. Even though the results of the vaccine tests are good news, it is not an intervention that is in place yet and there are still questions that remain, including how effective it will be, when it will it be available to the general public, and how it will be distributed, among others.
