辉瑞公司(Pfizer)的首席执行官艾伯乐(Abler Bourla)于9月9日表示,他对辉瑞正在试验的新冠疫苗持乐观态度,相信这款疫苗是一个强有力的竞争者,有望在秋天突破走向公众的关键难关。
在一次由《财富》杂志的首席执行官穆瑞澜(Alan Murray)主持的网络讨论会上,艾伯乐说:“我认为,到10月底,我们就很有知道确定疫苗是否成功。”
这款疫苗是由辉瑞和德国生物科技公司BioTech联合研发的。艾伯乐指出,疫苗必须通过三期临床试验才能确保安全性和有效性。然而,辉瑞通过自己建模,确定有60%的可能性到10月底就可以知道疫苗能否成功。
艾乐伯说:“我们给相当多的人注射了疫苗或安慰剂,然后让他们照常生活。”
这是药品研发的关键是:通过随机性的临床试验,确定实验性疗法是否存在严重副作用。在疫情中,让人们照常生活不可避免地让他们暴露在新冠病毒面前。试验参与者有的被注射了疫苗,有的被注射了安慰剂。正如艾伯乐所说,评估他们之间受感染情况的差别至关重要。
艾伯乐说:“我非常有信心。我们在不到一个月的时间里,给2.6万人接种了疫苗。”
本次《财富》杂志讨论会的主题是使命驱动的商业。艾伯乐对此也发表了看法。他说:“每次,我的团队告诉我,必须等到2021年年中才有结果。我就对他们说,请回去算算,如果我们到了秋天还拿不出产品,会多死多少人。”尽管辉瑞说过,不打算在全球疫情大爆发期间把赚钱看得比治病还重要,会以最大多数人可接受的价格给产品定价,但艾伯乐表示,这样做长期看对公司有好处。他说:“能够拿出疫苗就是重大突破,我不是圣人,但是,发展造福人类的科学一样可以让我们赚钱。”(财富中文网)
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辉瑞公司(Pfizer)的首席执行官艾伯乐(Abler Bourla)于9月9日表示,他对辉瑞正在试验的新冠疫苗持乐观态度,相信这款疫苗是一个强有力的竞争者,有望在秋天突破走向公众的关键难关。
在一次由《财富》杂志的首席执行官穆瑞澜(Alan Murray)主持的网络讨论会上,艾伯乐说:“我认为,到10月底,我们就很有知道确定疫苗是否成功。”
这款疫苗是由辉瑞和德国生物科技公司BioTech联合研发的。艾伯乐指出,疫苗必须通过三期临床试验才能确保安全性和有效性。然而,辉瑞通过自己建模,确定有60%的可能性到10月底就可以知道疫苗能否成功。
艾乐伯说:“我们给相当多的人注射了疫苗或安慰剂,然后让他们照常生活。”
这是药品研发的关键是:通过随机性的临床试验,确定实验性疗法是否存在严重副作用。在疫情中,让人们照常生活不可避免地让他们暴露在新冠病毒面前。试验参与者有的被注射了疫苗,有的被注射了安慰剂。正如艾伯乐所说,评估他们之间受感染情况的差别至关重要。
艾伯乐说:“我非常有信心。我们在不到一个月的时间里,给2.6万人接种了疫苗。”
本次《财富》杂志讨论会的主题是使命驱动的商业。艾伯乐对此也发表了看法。他说:“每次,我的团队告诉我,必须等到2021年年中才有结果。我就对他们说,请回去算算,如果我们到了秋天还拿不出产品,会多死多少人。”尽管辉瑞说过,不打算在全球疫情大爆发期间把赚钱看得比治病还重要,会以最大多数人可接受的价格给产品定价,但艾伯乐表示,这样做长期看对公司有好处。他说:“能够拿出疫苗就是重大突破,我不是圣人,但是,发展造福人类的科学一样可以让我们赚钱。”(财富中文网)
译者:MS
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on September 9 reiterated his optimistic view that the company’s experimental coronavirus vaccine is a strong contender and may potentially cross key barriers on the way to the public by the fall.
“I think by the end of October we have a very good chance to know if the vaccine works or not,” Bourla said during a virtual panel discussion moderated by Fortune CEO Alan Murray.
Bourla emphasized that the vaccine, which is being jointly developed with the German biotech firm BioNTech, would have to be validated through Phase III clinical studies in order to establish safety and efficacy. However, Pfizer believes through its modeling that there’s a more than 60% chance the companies will know by the end of October whether or not it actually works.
“We’ve vaccinated a very large number of people either with the vaccine or the placebo, and then we let them live their lives,” Bourla said.
This is the essence of drug development, the randomized clinical trial that helps determine whether or not an experimental treatment actually has a significant effect. In the case of a pandemic, letting people live their lives will inevitably mean exposure to COVID—and, as Bourla put it, it’s critical to measure the difference in infection between study participants given the placebo versus those given the experimental vaccine.
“I’m very confident,” said Bourla. “Within a month we’ve had almost 26,000 people vaccinated.”
The theme of the Fortune session was purpose-driven business, and Bourla spoke to that as well. “Every time my team told me we’d have to wait till mid-2021, I’d tell them, ‘Go back and calculate how many more people would die if we don’t have something by this fall,’” he said.
And while Pfizer says it has no plans to put profits before patients during a global outbreak, and will base its pricing on maximal accessibility, Bourla still feels it will help the company in the long run: “Bringing a vaccine will be a breakthrough; I’m not a saint, but by doing good science, we’ll also be making money.”