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COVID crashed everything in March (elective procedures cancelled, hospitals and devices devastated), but then it became my industry's finest hour: insurers reaped windfalls from deferred claims and vaccine makers raced to blockbuster status…
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Pfizer and BioNTech announced their COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective, driving a historic market rotation into value stocks and boosting sectors like travel, hospitality, and banks. The Dow surged 834 points while tech stocks sold off, signaling investor optimism about economic reopening and a shift away from pandemic winners like Zoom and Amazon.
Moderna announced its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective based on interim phase three trial data, with no significant safety concerns, spurring a 12% jump in shares. The results, following Pfizer's similar success, validate mRNA vaccine technology and support expectations of broad distribution by mid-2021, with major implications for economic reopening and global vaccine equity.