What the COVID-19 vaccines actually do
Dec 04, 2020
3 minutes
By Alice Park
PHOTOGRAPH BY GO NAKAMURA
The Brief is reported by Madeleine Carlisle, Suyin Haynes, Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Jeffrey Kluger, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache, Olivia B. Waxman and Michael Zennie
T’S A RARE GLIMMER OF HOPE IN A BRUTAL AND battering pandemic year: in November, both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech reported that their much anticipated COVID-19 vaccines are around 95% effective in protecting people against getting sick with the disease. Both companies have requested authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start distributing their vaccines, and the
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