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Vaccines are like milk. Both make us stronger, but if stored at the wrong temperature, they spoil. The reason? At least in the context of COVID-19, shots rely on messenger RNAs — particles, which in oversimplified terms, carry the key instructions for teaching your immune system to fight the coronavirus. mRNAs are fickle things, or as chemists would describe them, they're "unstable." They break down quickly unless adequately protected from those pesky enzymes which eat away at them.

Two months into the effort to vaccinate the public against COVID-19, the administration of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan reversed course and said it would launch an official, though limited, waitlist to ease the frustrating hunt for scarce doses.

The general election this past year was unlike any other, with an intensely contested election between two candidates, a series of legal challenges and a former president who cast doubt upon the validity of absentee ballots and the election outcome itself. 

Vaccines are like milk. Both make us stronger, but if stored at the wrong temperature, they spoil.

Vaccine supply chain bottlenecks eased, drugmakers tell Congress. Three hundred million doses from Pfizer. Three hundred million from Moderna. One hundred million from Johnson & Johnson. One hundred million from Novavax.