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Decoded: Why the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine holds promise over Pfizer's

The Pfizer vaccine (more than 90 per cent effective) must be stored at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Creating cold chains to deliver this to billions is impossible in any reasonable time

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The new RNA-based technology bypasses creating dead viruses. The body uses RNA to give instructions to the DNA to produce antibodies

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The joke on Delhi social media is that the two new coronavirus vaccines would be unacceptable to Delhi colleges with admission cut-offs far higher than the rated effectiveness of about

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