While San Diego health care workers rolled up their sleeves for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, local scientists stressed that a new strain of the virus likely won’t outwit current vaccines.
That’s good news for Dr. Caitlin Breen, a pediatric resident who got her shot Tuesday morning at Rady Children’s Hospital. A week ago, Breen found out that she’d cared for a woman in labor who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
“It’s more stressful thinking about, ‘Well, how many other patients did I see right after her?’” she said.
Receiving the vaccine could help allay those concerns. Moderna’s vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective in preventing people from getting sick with COVID-19, and while researchers aren’t certain the vaccine keeps you from infecting others, most say it likely lowers those odds.