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By JACQUELINE MITCHELL | Beth Israel Deaconess
December 15, 2020Research
This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s
of medicine, biomedical research, medical education and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19.
Since the novel coronavirus emerged at the end of 2019, scientists around the world, including immunologist Dan Barouch, the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, have been developing vaccines to protect against COVID-19 and to put an end to the pandemic.
As of November 2020, three pharmaceutical companies released early data showing high rates of protection in phase III human trials for their vaccines, but questions remain about how the body develops and maintains immunity after vaccination or infection.