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New COVID vaccines coming, but persuasion, supplies needed
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Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the “wildly successful” clinical trials of vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna have helped get millions vaccinated against COVID-19, but new vaccines on the horizon will be needed to curb the pandemic more quickly, said Dean Sten Vermund of the Yale School of Public Health.
Those vaccines, which should arrive in February and March, will need to be combined with efforts to persuade reluctant people that the vaccines are safe and effective against spreading the disease, he said.
As of Wednesday, 16 million Americans and 52 million people worldwide had received at least their first dose of vaccine, according to Bloomberg, an average of 2.35 million doses per day.