A giant pharmaceutical company, Pfizer shook the world after announcing a crucial COVID-19 breakthrough on November 9; that the results from their coronavirus vaccine proved 90 percent effective. – By Gerald Gekara
However, many have raised eyebrows over the company’s other sensual product. Pfizer in the medical world is famed for its firm VIAGRA chain of products.
The drug, commonly known as Sildenafil in medical circles, is a common medication used to stimulate erections in men with erectile dysfunction (ED).
The drug is also used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (high blood pressure affecting the lungs and heart). For treating ED specifically, Viagra is the well-known brand-name version of this drug.
Pfizer has made many other drugs that are used by people every day.
Currently, other drugs include Advil, and Xanax.
Pfizer has been critical in the medical world, with the discovery of citric acid as well as its mass production of penicillin and vitamin C.
What about its efforts in fighting Coronavirus
The new vaccine by Pfizer is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine. Conventional vaccines are produced using weakened forms of the virus, but mRNAs use only the virus’s genetic code.
An mRNA vaccine is injected into the body where it enters cells and tells them to create antigens.
These antigens are recognized by the immune system and prepare it to fight coronavirus.
The vaccine has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries and no safety concerns have been raised.
Pfizer plans to apply to the US regulator the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of November.
