Dr Onyema Ogbuagu: The Nigerian Behind Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough


DR Onyema Ogbuagu, a Nigerian physician based in the United States is one of the many doctors who were involved in the Pfizer trial for the covid-19 vaccine.

The Associate Professor of Medicine, stated that the Vaccine had no trace of sars cov-2 virus and that the efficacy levels were real. Pfizer and BioNtech announced that the corona virus vaccine that has been developed can protect 94 percent of adults over 65 years old.

Dr. Ogbuagu is a Yale principal investigator for many investigational therapeutic and preventative clinical trials for COVID-19 including Remdesivir (which the FDA approved), as well as the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine trial. He is currently a clinical educator and director of the HIV clinical Trials program for Yale AIDS program, a section of the infectious diseases of Yale school of Medicine.

The Nigerian doctor played a key role in the covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and further sheds the light that so many Nigerians are making Impact around the globe.

The news of the vaccine breakthrough has brought a sigh of relief to nations of the world that with a vaccine in sight, the long war against the corona virus may gradually be coming to an end.