{"id":113036,"date":"2020-09-15T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/pfizer-says-coronavirus-vaccine-study-shows-mostly-mild-to-moderate-side-effects"},"modified":"2020-09-15T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:22:46","slug":"pfizer-says-coronavirus-vaccine-study-shows-mostly-mild-to-moderate-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/pfizer-says-coronavirus-vaccine-study-shows-mostly-mild-to-moderate-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer says coronavirus vaccine study shows mostly mild-to-moderate side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfizer-says-coronavirus-vaccine-study-shows-mostly-mild-to-moderate-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday participants were showing mild-to-moderate side effects when given either the company\u2019s experimental coronavirus vaccine or a placebo in an ongoing late-stage study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2014 Pfizer Inc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/PFE.N\">PFE.N<\/a> said on Tuesday participants were showing mostly mild-to-moderate side effects when given either the company\u2019s experimental coronavirus vaccine or a placebo in an ongoing late-stage study.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a presentation to investors that side effects included fatigue, headache, chills and muscle pain. Some participants in the trial also developed fevers \u2014 including a few high fevers. The data is blinded, meaning Pfizer does not know which patients received the vaccine or a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer\u2019s head of vaccine research and development, stressed that the independent data monitoring committee \u201chas access to unblinded data so they would notify us if they have any safety concerns and have not done so to date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday participants were showing mild-to-moderate side effects when given either the company\u2019s experimental coronavirus vaccine or a placebo in an ongoing late-stage study. (Reuters) \u2014 Pfizer Inc PFE.N said on Tuesday participants were showing mostly mild-to-moderate side effects when given either the company\u2019s experimental coronavirus vaccine or a placebo in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}