UpdatedThu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:01 am ET Replies(25) Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 94 percent effective. It could be distributed to states later this month. (Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock) For the better part of 10 months, the entire world has been awaiting the emergence of vaccines that would provide its first major pushback against the coronavirus. Now, with that time upon us, the politicization of the virus — as well as a general mistrust of vaccines — means not everyone is clamoring for it. The first COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in New Hampshire in mid-December. Pfizer's vaccine was approved overnight in the United Kingdom and is up for emergency use authorization in the United States next week, and Cambridge-based Moderna's vaccine is hoping for the same the following week.