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Australia signs two more COVID-19 vaccine agreements – Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has secured 50 million more potential coronavirus vaccine doses through two new agreements.
The other vaccine, developed by Pfizer and Germany company BioNTech, contains genetic material messenger called mRNA. It injects people with the genetic material necessary to grow the “spike protein” of SARS-CoV-2 inside their own cells, eliciting an immune response the body will remember when it encounters the real virus.
Large phase two and three clinical trials are ongoing globally in older adults, younger adults and adolescents. Both vaccines will be available to Australians for free to those…
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