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As COVID-19 vaccines emerge, a global waiting game begins
Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.In March, a Seattle tech worker named Jennifer Haller received an outpouring of gratitude from strangers following news reports that she had received an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, a first outside of China, to test its dosing and safety. “This was one of the few things happening that people could latch on to and say, ‘OK, we’ve got a vaccine coming, disregard that it’s going to take at least 18 months,’” she said at the time.Haller was overly skeptical about when an effective COVID-19 vaccine would arrive.