The Good News About COVID-19 Vaccines
3 facts about coronavirus vaccinations to brighten up your day
At the end of a long, dark COVID-19 winter, vaccines are the spring we’ve all been waiting for. If you had asked most scientists this time last year whether they thought that we would have a COVID-19 vaccine licensed and given to millions of people by the start of 2021, the answer would almost certainly be “absolutely not”.
And yet, here we are. Millions of people already immunized, safe from the numerous harms of COVID-19. It’s been a doom-filled year, but things are really looking up for us all.
How good are the vaccines really? Well, we already knew, from the massive clinical trial evidence, that our COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective enough to use — even a relatively bad vaccine is much safer than infection with COVID-19. But now we have real-world data rolling in from tens of millions of vaccinations, which allows us to see things at a population scale.
The results are in. And they are looking good.
So here are some facts about COVID-19 vaccinations to brighten your day.
