The distribution of the first vaccines for the coronavirus has raised hopes that the end of the pandemic may be in sight, but it has also sparked some concern about side effects.
Here’s what we know so far.
What side effects?
Results from final-stage clinical trials of two of the frontrunner vaccines were published this week and both are considered safe.
Data for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, already authorized in several countries, was released in the peer-reviewed scientific journal New England Journal of Medicine.
The drug is based on experimental technology that uses a synthetic version of a molecule called “messenger RNA” to hack into human cells and effectively tu…
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