3rd Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate Reported To Be Effective – KWIT

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For the third Monday in a row, we have good news about a coronavirus vaccine. Today the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and its partner, the University of Oxford, announced that their vaccine was 70% effective in preventing COVID-19. This vaccine uses a different technology from the ones made by Pfizer and Moderna that have already been shown to be effective. Joining me now is NPR science correspondent Joe Palca to talk about the news. Joe, what is this technology? How…

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