The drama of the coronavirus vaccine was that for the first time, all three processes—development, testing, ramping up production—were accomplished simultaneously, on a scale intended in due course to cover the entire population of the world, even as the pandemic was still progressing. The researchers got to a solution so fast in part because much of the basic research and preclinical testing on animal models had been done in 2003 in response to the SARS pandemic.21 The SARS crisis had ebbed before the vaccine development was completed. This time round, the global vaccine race developed a
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