COVID-19 NEWS
South Kensington Community Partners
The City is encouraging residents to sign up online and complete the Vaccine Interest Form to express interest in receiving the vaccine as it becomes available.
Visit https://covid-vaccine-interest.phila.gov
to complete the form.
An illustrated guide to how the COVID-19 vaccines work
Tom Avril and Dominique DeMoe, Philadelphia Inquirer
It is impossible for the RNA vaccines to cause infection. And no, they can’t change your DNA. The first two COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed, one made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, the other by Moderna Inc., are the first such drugs to consist of genetic instructions in the form of RNA: ribonucleic acid.
Here is a step-by-step description of the process, written with guidance from University of Pennsylvania scientist Drew Weissman, whose work with former colleague Katalin Karikó, now at BioNTech, helped make the vaccines possible.
