The Big Issue

Is the Moderna vaccine less effective against new Covid-19 variants?

HOW IT WAS TOLD

Right now, we all fancy ourselves to be armchair epidemiologists, pinning all our hopes on the vaccines to get us out of this global pandemic.

That’s why any news doubting the effcacy of the injections is a devastating blow and attracts extreme scrutiny. One such story was widely debunked last week when German fnancial newspaper claimed the AstraZeneca vaccine had just eight per cent effcacy – though

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