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Why a successful vaccine can’t come soon enough for vulnerable families

Publish Date: Edit Date: 3 mins read Guest Blog
The announcement from Pfizer and their partner BioNtech on Monday, detailing positive early-stage data from their trial of a Covid-19 vaccine has unsurprisingly generated huge media interest.

For so many children and families facing new and heightened challenges caused by the pandemic, lockdowns and the pressures they have caused, it’s a precious sign of progress.  

We might consider vaccines to be the earliest form of intervention, a highly effective approach that protects people from debilitating and life-threatening illness, so this potentially very important update is exciting.

But amongst the excitement that this might signal the beginning of the end for the pandemic, there has rightly been many from the scientific community, and beyond, pointing out that these are preliminary results, which need much more analysis.

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