Pfizer has announced that their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing infection. As a response Disney stocks surged by more than 10% in pre-market trading to more than $140 per share.
“Today is a great day for science and humanity,” Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. “We are reaching this critical milestone in our vaccine development program at a time when the world needs it most with infection rates setting new records, hospitals nearing over-capacity and economies struggling to reopen.”
The news does not mean that a vaccine will be widely available yet, but Pfizer predicts having 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
Disney Parks have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Disneyland even being prevented from reopening by California Governor Gavin Newsom. In Orlando, Walt Disney World reopened in July, but with capacity restrictions, a greatly reduced entertainment lineup, and social distancing and safety protocols in place such as mandatory mask usage.
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