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Mar. 10, 2021
At the beginning of December, Britain’s health system became the first to begin vaccinating the population using Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger RNA coronavirus vaccine.
It was the first time that messenger RNA technology, which had been used in research for about 30 years, was being used to treat the public at large. Since then, roughly 100 million people have been inoculated using mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. The information now available about possible side effects demonstrates the vaccines are safe – even safer than many experts had anticipated.
Despite the findings, injecting unfamiliar substances into the body, particularly using new technology, has prompted a degree of public concern. Even now, these concerns have spurred on a small group of longtime anti-vaxxers who have been joined by opinion leaders in spreading false information about the COVID-19 pandemic.