Leaders in Western New York are working to educate people about the COVID-19 vaccine. Many people are wondering whether researchers rushed through the process of creating the vaccine.
Timothy F. Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of
medicine and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, says the COVID-19 vaccine is based on older vaccines like SARS and MERS. He added that the trials had the same number of participants as any other vaccine trial would. “The reason it was able to be done so quickly is there was this enormous national and international collaboration to do these trials,” Murphy said. “The Pfizer trial, the one that now has emergency use authorization, had 149 sites.”