by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 19, 2021 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The two currently-approved COVID-19 vaccines use a technique called messenger RNA (mRNA) that could lead to cures for cancer and many other diseases. In 2005, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania discovered that mRNA could be injected to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 16, 2021 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Results from clinical trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines showed about 95 percent effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 infections, and they were given Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 12, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Are you concerned about getting one of the new COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they are approved? We have no long-term safety information because no one has more than 10 months of experience with this disease. However, we do have decades of experience with other...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 14, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective against the disease. Early data from their 44,000-person trial analyzed the first 94 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among the participants...
