Vaccines for Covid-19 (Effectiveness and any side effects)

So this week I've checked my New Scientist early unlike last week and there is some more good news.

Pfizer are keeping the vaccine at these incredibly low temperatures out of an abundance of caution, other teams working with the same messenger RNA technology have other vaccines which are lasting several months at much closer to room temperature and those researchers are pretty convinced that Pfizer's vaccine will be stable at edit: higher (I wrote lower ) temperature.

So that is refreshing to hear, the vaccine will need some additional certification to be used at higher temperature but that appears to be a formality after some animal testing is concluded.

So maybe low temp -70 yo -80C to start with then more normal temperatures later.

The other teams are an Imperial College team whose vaccine candidate is stable at 4C for several months so an ordinary fridge could store it, and another candidate was developed by CureVac in Germany and is also stable for several months at refrigerator temperatures.

This is interesting but also very funny, it is about the Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody, synthetic antibody treatment.

The vid should start from the relevant time but if you want to watch the earlier stuff the rest of it is fun as well

This is well put, it is US but still very relevant and it explains a lot quite clearly.