Pfizer

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
  2. 2
    An mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19, developed by BioNTech in cooperation with Pfizer.

    "For the record, Stone has been quadruple-vaxxed against covid-19: “Two Sputniks and two Pfizers,” he says proudly."

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comirnatytozinameran

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"The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 90 percent effective."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pfizer. The biotechnology company was named after one of its co-founders, German-American businessman Charles Pfizer (1824–1906).

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