What does the newest vaccine breakthrough mean for the end of the pandemic?
There are now two promising potential COVID vaccines. This is what we know about them.
Operation Warp Speed, the White House-led task force on coronavirus vaccine treatment and development, was created on May 15. Since then, vague and contradicting timelines made by both the Trump administration and leading scientists have muddled predictions about when a COVID-19 vaccine would be available to the public. However, two big companies leading the race for a vaccine have released promising results from their Phase 3 trials. Here’s what we know about both trials and what they might mean for the future of the pandemic.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/16/moderna-pfizer-covid-vaccine-heres-what-we-know-them/6308571002/
Questions Remain, But Local Experts Say Moderna And Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccines Surpass All Expectations
First one, now two coronavirus vaccines have rocketed past all prior expectations with preliminary clinical results that raise hopes of a vaccine heralding the eventual end of the pandemic. Cambridge-based biotech Moderna Therapeutics on Monday announced its vaccine is nearly 95% effective in an early release of data from its phase three clinical trial. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced last Monday that early results suggested its vaccine was over 90% effective as well.
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/11/16/moderna-coronavirus-vaccines-expectations
