Israel transmission research

Federal health officials in the United States greenlighted Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose, COVID-19 vaccine this past weekend. Around the world, large trials have shown how effective the vaccines are but these studies don’t tell you everything. The World’s Elana Gordon reports on why understanding the virus’s transmissibility even postvaccine is so tricky and how scientists are taking that on.

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