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How development of the COVID-19 vaccine shattered records
Ian Explains: How Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine Shattered Records | GZERO Media
December 17, 2020
They said it couldn't be done: a vaccine developed in record time. In 1967, Merck had a license for a mumps vaccine, less than five years for work that normally takes decades. But that record is now being shattered as the COVID-19 vaccine reaches the market in less than a year. It's an unprecedented scientific development in a whirlwind year of crisis.
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