mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19
Recently, a rush of interim analyses from pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech has spurred optimism that a novel type of vaccine made from messenger RNA, known as mRNA, can offer high levels of protection by preventing COVID-19 among people who are vaccinated.
- Moderna’s new mRNA vaccine is almost 94.5% effective in large-scale trials. Similarly, Pfizer’s vaccine has also shown an efficacy of around 95%.
mRNA Vaccine Function
- mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases. To trigger an immune response, a mRNA vaccine teaches our cells how to make a protein or even just a portion ....
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