Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant

Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by ruph123 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:39PM (#26665731)

Credit where credit is due. It was developed by BioNtech and Pfizer helped with trial and distribution. Calling it Pfizer vaccine because it is American or just because it is bigger is such a shame. Give credit to the small company that developed it no matter what country it is from. If the company was from the US, there would’ve been hundreds of fluff pieces and heroism on display writing up the company and the name would be known long and wide.

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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by stjohnswarts on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:30PM (#26667052)

Why? Anyone who would be investing in companies would know it's Biontech if they did 5 minutes of research. I think they'll do just fine after developing the vaccine. The people who matter to their future will know their name.

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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by xxpor on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:18PM (#26667504)

Don't underestimate the value of political support by having name recognition.

Imagine if instead of Solyndra, the money went to GE or something. The project still failed, the government still lost the money. But it's a lot easier to sell "We gave the money to this well known company, the project failed, it happens" even though the result is exactly the same.

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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by asdff on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:20PM (#26666951)

I don't even know how to say BioNtech. Bio-inn-tech? Bion-tech? Bio-and-tech? It's a clumsy name, to be fair, compared to moderna or pfizer.

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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by xxpor on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:19PM (#26667511)

In the news media in the US, I've heard it Bio-en-tech, where en is the way you'd say the name of the letter "N".

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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by ruph123 on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:18AM (#26668989)

I’d say most of the world’s population does not know how to pronounce “Pfizer” correctly.

And it’s Bion-tech.

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