The COVID-19 vaccines were developed quickly without compromising safety.
Here’s how! A short thread. #ScienceUpFirst ⤵️
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Here’s how! A short thread. #ScienceUpFirst ⤵️
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Researchers didn’t create the vaccines from scratch! They’ve been studying related coronaviruses for YEARS.
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RNA-based therapies (like Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines) have been studied for 3 decades and in clinical trials for >5 years!
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The timeline was sped up 🏃♂️by doing steps in parallel instead of sequentially, plus tremendous global collaboration and sharing of resources 💸
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💉 Serious adverse events from vaccines are less common than getting hit by lightning (~1-2 in a million for flu vaccine).
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Serious adverse events usually happen within hours to at most a few months following vaccination, so any major issues would've shown up by now since trials started in March 2020.
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