The Truth About COVID Vaccines and Emergency Use Authorizations

The news of several promising COVID-19 vaccines over the past few weeks has been very exciting, but so far, none have received emergency authorization for general use in the US. We'll talk about what that means, and also, why these vaccines are unlike any you've gotten before!

Hosted by: Michael Aranda

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[BurnedSoap]

Your cells: hey check out this spike protein I made
Also your cells: *what in tarnation*

[veryberry]

Michael doing his part and refusing to go to a hairstylist.

[LaviniaDeMortalium]

bless Scishow for giving hard facts over personal speculation. They've been my one light spot of hope in this pandemic.

[ReiTwenty]

Oh boy can't wait to hear what the experts in the comments have to say

[toopieare]

I wince just a little every time I hear “final solution”.

[decidethink]

Testable vaccine in just a month, futuristic?... Star Trek would have knocked that out in less than an hour!

[Eclipsle]

It would be great to see some information about the decades of MRNA trials that have been occurring and what success or not success they've had since as you said this is never been used outside a clinical trial.

[adrianaluciacespedes]

Any data about RNA vaccines and people with autoinmune conditions?

Maybe not about covid19 vaccines but from the previous studies? Could you do a future video to know if people with autoinmune conditions should take them?

[kzisnbkosplay]

I would be very interested in learning more about long-haulers. How often? Risk factors? How long? Will the vaccine prevent it? Long term consequences?

[AQCE]

You know what’s amazing? The coronavirus first arrived on our shores about 10 to 11 months ago. And look at how much historic progress we are rapidly making on the COVID vaccines!
I am very proud of humanity’s biomedical science.

[Neckcron]

Im in the vaccine trial for covid... got my vacc today =/

[robcandy]

Our first good news of the year... Is not exactly good news. Damn you reality

[thedayinthelifemiller]

It’s funny when you read the Comments. Somehow everyone is either a bio chemist or a pharmacy technician

[timpage]

Took the NYT "when will you get the vaccine" quiz today. Said I'd be 144 millionth in line.

[belindaweber]

Thanking my lucky stars that I'm here in Perth Western Australia, watching how this plays out!

[marymelchior]

I hope you follow up with a bit on the astra Zeneca vaccine. Long before the time all health care worker, older folk and high risk groups have used up all the mRNA vaccines, it will be on the market. They had some bugs in the first trials, but that may lead to interesting immunology research. They are also the only group I know of which actually tested all participants regularly to track who got asymptomatic cases. The others only test people who got sick.

[EmpressMermaid]

Interesting to go back and see how science has advanced in a short amount of time.

[pizzamozzerrella]

Been waiting for a long time for this video .thanks Scishow

[bobgeorge]

i want to know what the side effects are.

[AngDevigne]

I never thought I'd see the day when SciShow comments looked like the front page of reddit.

Can we all just take a moment to meditate on how awesome his hair is? No? Okay...