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Pfizer vaccine has 'extraordinarily high degree of efficacy': Fauci

A successful inoculation could be a key factor in overcoming reluctance to take pandemic vaccines that have been developed at top speed.

Anthony Fauci
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Anthony Fauci is USA's top infectious-disease doctor. (Photo: Bloomberg.)

Jason Gale | Bloomberg
The success of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine trial may help persuade more people to get inoculated amid a surge in new coronavirus cases, according to Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious-disease doctor.

Pfizer’s vaccine, developed in collaboration with Germany’s BioNTech SE, has “an extraordinarily high degree of efficacy -- more than 90 per cent, close to 95 per cent,” Fauci said in an interview. That could be a key factor in overcoming reluctance to take pandemic vaccines that have been developed at top speed.

“What I would hope is that even though there’s a degree of skepticism about vaccines in