Nobel Winner Raised Safety Concerns About Only ‘Modestly’ Effective mRNA Vaccines

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In what seems like an inevitable development, scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their role in developing the mRNA technology underlying the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines which were rolled out in late 2020.