COVID Help Desk: Answering your questions on vaccine ingredients, allergies and more
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A nurse measures vaccine doses before administering them at Minute Maid Park Jan. 16. The city has now launched a drive-thru site at Delmar Stadium with United Memorial Medical Center. The site only is open to people with appointments.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Registered nurse Wanda Parker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for Houston Fire Department District 20 Chief Patrick Rocha Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital in Houston. Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital started vaccinating Houston firefighters last week.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
COVID Help Desk: Your questions answered on vaccine ingredients, allergies and more By Gwendolyn Wu, Staff writer
Information is changing rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the country, infection rates surge and dip and health care providers roll out the coronavirus vaccine across the country.
That’s what the Houston Chronicle’s COVID-19 Help Desk is here to get right. Every week, a Chronicle reporter will take readers’ questions about how the virus works and what to expect with the vaccine.
What’s in the ingredient list of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published the ingredients of both vaccines online as part of their emergency use authorizations. Pfizer-BioNTech s vaccine includes mRNA, lipids, potassium chloride, monobasic potassium phosphate, sodium chloride, dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate and sucrose. Moderna s vaccine includes messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), lipids, tromethamine, tromethamine hyd
GALVESTON Even after much of the general population gets COVID-19 vaccines, they will likely need to get annual doses to protect against future mutations of the virus, according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Scott Weaver, director of the medical branch’s infectious disease research programs, said viruses like COVID-19 will eventually find ways to mutate in order to continue to infect people, even those.