MIAMI – Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Ron DeSantis will attend a COVID-19 roundtable Monday at the UHealth Don Soffer Clinical Research Center in South Florida.Pence is scheduled to hold a news conference at 2:15 p.m.Pence’s visit comes the same day as the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S.
government -- one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.There’s still no guarantee that theexperimental vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will protect.The needed proof: Volunteers won’t know if they’re getting the real shot or a dummy version.