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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by Godel_unicode on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:38AM (#25113698)
Because long-term effects require a long term to show up, and the vaccine was created using a very well-understood technique for which that type of data is available.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by tomp on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:52AM (#25113884)
Are you sure about that? AFAIK both Moderna and Pfitzer vaccines are novel mRNA vaccines, of which (according to Wikipedia) none have been yet approved for human use.
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