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Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Vaccines…One Giant Step
But Still a Long and Winding Road
We are living in the age of miracles.
No one, not even Tony Fauci, dreamed we could go from learning the virus’ genetic sequence in January to putting vaccines into health care workers’ arms this week.
Things have happened fast — not dangerously fast, just amazingly fast — because of a ton of pre-planning. The technology for making vaccines with mRNA has been evolving for over a decade and the Phase I safety testing and the Phase 2 and 3 “effectiveness” (efficacy) trials were launched early and well.
Two important groups of scientists over the past few weeks reviewed data from Pfizer’s vaccine trials. On Thursday, the independent committee that advises the FDA reviewed the data publicly and recommended the FDA approve it.
Last Friday, December 11, the FDA said the Pfizer vaccine was a go. Next Friday it’s very likely they’ll say the same thing about the Moderna vaccine.
Some say Friday December 11, 2020 will go down in history as the day we began to recover from the pandemic.
I say Friday December 11, 2020 will go down in history as the beginning of the start of the first part of the initial phase of someday having things go back to something…
