# @nytimes on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@nytimes/video/7481051408251374890
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27341195-nytimes-tiktok
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b31f94249f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-03-12T22:20:28.000+00:00

## Caption

Five years after the Covid pandemic began, our reporter looks back at the success of, and the backlash to, the mRNA vaccine. There’s no question that this vaccine technology saved millions of lives. But the vaccine couldn’t provide total protection against transmission or infection, and there were rare cases of side effects, leading to confusion among the American public. At the link in our bio, read more takeaways from the pandemic, five years later. Video by Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Thornell, Laura Bult and James Surdam #Covid #mRNA #vaccines

## Stats

- **Views:** 95,900
- **Likes:** 6,167
- **Shares:** 255
- **Comments:** 289

## Tags

covid, mrna, vaccines

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