With the coronavirus spreading widely throughout the country and hospitalizations and deaths climbing, President-elect Joe Biden today announced a new COVID-19 advisory board to guide his administration during the transition period.Also today, drug maker Pfizer announced that preliminary data from the large, phase 3 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed with German biopharmaceutical company BioNTech, showed the vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in trial participants.
The announcement did not include any data from the trial.Meanwhile, the United States reported 105,927 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, and 457 new deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard.