[TRENDING: Hundreds line up for free turkeys | COVID-19 vaccine FAQs | 11 things to be thankful for during pandemic]Moderna and Pfizer have announced its COVID-19 vaccines are about 95% effective.
Smith said using messenger RNA technology has allowed these vaccines to be created faster than others.“They took a piece of RNA that’s inside the virus, they copied it out and synthesized it, and that is given to the person with a shot and produces a protein that the immune system responds to,” said Smith.mRNA technology is so new that there hasn’t been an mRNA vaccine approved by the Federal Drug Administration yet.Storage is also something that sets these vaccines apart.