Corona Virus Vaccine

Moderna and Pfizer vaccine with great results.

By. Logan Zlot ‘22

The great race to get us back to living our normal, non COVID, lives is in full motion and the two front runners being Pfizer and Moderna are working their hardest to save us.

Modernas vaccine is 94.5% effective at this point and in a 30000 person study where half were given a placebo and half were given the real vaccine, only five people of the group who got the vaccine said they were still sick. 90 people from the placebo group had said they were still infected. Anthony Fauci had admitted the most recent data from the studies.

“ I would have been satisfied with COVID vaccines that were 70-75% efficient.” said Fauci. With success rate much higher than expected, he hopes to push production.

The other vaccine that is in production is created by Pfizer, but the only problem is that Pfizer’s vaccine must be kept very cold temperatures and many hospitals are unable to meet those expectations. Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, along with Moderna are hoping to get authorization to mass produce the vaccine from the FDA.

A total of  50 million doses will be available by the end of the year and up to 1.3 billion by the end of next year.

The vaccine created is a “important step in the historic eight month journey,” said Dr. Bourla.

With the creation of the new vaccines many people have said they would not be getting the vaccine when it first came out. Later about 51% of people said they would receive the vaccine.

One of the biggest problems is will the vaccine be safe to use. “There is just so little information about this that it’s impossible to understand,” Dr.Goodman.

“It is not yet possible to say, however, how long the immunity granted by either vaccine will last because studies of both have only lasted a matter of months.” Moderna stated. The vaccine is not perfect yet so we will have to wait and see what happens next.