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In the first half of the 20th century, cancer was misunderstood, if not an outright source of shame

For most of the current coronavirus vaccine trials, recruitment mainly takes place online — which often results in mostly white people enrolling.

One of the reasons Covid-19 has spread so swiftly around the globe is that for the first days after infection, people feel healthy.

Among the many ways to shorten the vaccine development timeline, approving a treatment based on antibody data — without completing a phase 3 trial — could be contentious. This is why.

Dreams of a large, immune population are a long way off.

COVID-19 isn’t the first health crisis the United States has faced that experts say a vaccine will be needed to resolve.