Are ASX energy shares the best pandemic recovery play in 2021?

We’re not out of the global pandemic woods just yet.

But with Moderna Inc‘s (NASDAQ: MRNA) vaccine given the green light by United States’ regulators, it could gain emergency authorisation clearance within days.

That will see Moderna’s vaccine join the jab developed by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX). And it will give the world 2 highly effective vaccines in the last month of the same year that spawned the coronavirus outbreak.

Of course, it will still be many months before those vaccines, and others, are delivered to the billions of people waiting to be immunised. The Australian government is now forecasting its vaccine rollout will commence in February.

But with the light at the end of the COVID…