{"id":2398,"date":"2020-11-20T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:07:20","slug":"potential-covid-19-vaccines-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2020\/11\/20\/potential-covid-19-vaccines-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two vaccines have shown great promise recently to be successful against COVID-19. Pfizer and Moderna<\/a> have reported that their vaccines showed close to 95% efficacy in their recent vaccine trials. These vaccines will provide immunity to covid-19, so that those who are vaccinated will not get sick, or if illness does occur, then the symptoms are less severe than they would be without the vaccine. Both vaccines are mRNA<\/a> vaccines, and if approved by the FDA, they would be the first vaccines made available using this method. An interesting feature of the novel coronavirus has been its spike protein and this is what both vaccines are targeting to build immunity to COVID-19. The sequence data<\/a> of the novel coronavirus shows the part of the sequence that corresponds to the spike protein<\/a> and a 3D visual representation<\/a> of the spike protein sequence in is Protein Data Bank. In \u201cmRNA vaccines \u2014 a new era in vaccinology,\u201d<\/a> Pardi and others explain that vaccines made with mRNA have the potential to be quickly scaled up for widespread distribution as well as being highly effective, which is why they hold so much hope for preventing and alleviating illness due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in learning more about vaccines, here are a few of the resources that you can check out from the UI Libraries. You can search for more in InfoHawk+<\/a> and contact lib-sciences@uiowa.edu<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On immunity : an inoculation <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RNA vaccines : methods and protocols<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonas Salk : a life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The politics of international health : the Children’s Vaccine Initiative and the struggle to develop vaccines for the third world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Long Shot : Vaccines for National Defense<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vaccine book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PBS NOVA video: Vaccines\u2014Calling the Shots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know Two vaccines have shown great promise recently to be successful against COVID-19. Pfizer and Moderna have reported that their vaccines showed close to 95% efficacy in their recent vaccine trials. These vaccines will provide immunity to covid-19, so that those who are vaccinated will not get sick, or ifContinue reading “Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[179,228,227],"syndication":[41,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}