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The Final Innings of the Pandemic

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By: Vic Eldred • 6 years ago • 19 comments

“This is a pivotal moment in the development of our COVID-19 vaccine candidate,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a statement. “Since early January, we have chased this virus with the intent to protect as many people around the world as possible. All along, we have known that each day matters.”

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As covid seems to be surging everywhere and the contentious 2020 election has come to a close, the nation and the world got the news we have been waiting to hear. First, Pfizer announced last week (right after the election) that it's COVID-19 vaccine was 90 percent effective in early trials and that it was applying for emergency-use authorization.

"Pfizer, one of the leaders in the race to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, said the final-stage trial of its vaccine candidate has now enrolled nearly all of the planned 44,000 participants worldwide. Nearly 36,000 had received the second shot of the two-dose vaccine as of Monday."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-pfizer-emergency-use-authorization-fda/

For health-care personnel and those who are at high risk the vaccine could become available in a matter of weeks. By April of 2021 it might be available to all.

This news was followed up by a Moderna announcement that it's coronavirus vaccine candidate was 94.5 percent effective in an interim analysis.

Congrats on operation "Warp Speed."

Normal decent human beings have longed for a return to normalcy, after a terrible year of death, violence and the destruction of the economy. It was, without a doubt, one of the worst years for the nation in my lifetime. American ingenuity & the collaboration of government and the forces of free enterprise have accomplished what was recently thought impossible.