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Chris Smith
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- As coronavirus vaccinations have started in the US, Uber announced it would offer free or discounted Uber rides to people seeking vaccination.
- Some 10 million rides will be offered in the promotion, but it’s unclear when the offer will start.
- The promo will include a round-trip to the vaccination site for each of the two doses.
The historic coronavirus vaccination campaigns have started in mid-December, about a year after COVID-19 was discovered in China. The UK was the first nation to begin administering the Pfizer/BioNTech drug to at-risk groups of people, and the US followed a week later. America might be the first country in the world to approve two COVID-19 vaccines that have completed Phase 3 trials, as Moderna already received an emergency use recommendation from an independent review panel. China has been using vaccines outside trials for months. Russia did it even before releasing any scientific data about its hastily approved vaccines.
A variety of technological advances made possible the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccines in record time. The BioNTech and Moderna drugs are only two of about a dozen vaccines that have reached Phase 3 trials worldwide, and hundreds of other ideas have been registered this year. The early sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome allowed researchers to work on a vaccine much faster than before. Companies have started planning the manufacturing and logistics during the Phase 1-3 trials, rather than after the approvals were obtained, in a bid to improve delivery times. The side-effect to all of that is public mistrust, fueled in part by a variety of toxic campaigns spreading fake news about vaccines on social media. As some people with malicious intentions are trying to hinder vaccination campaigns, others are looking to provide support. Uber is on the right side of vaccines.
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