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After the vaccine was tested in animals, it was clear that his design choices had been sound. The first human was inoculated on March 16, beginning the Phase 1 trial. A week later, Moderna began scaling up production to a million doses per month.
The Plague Year
Lawrence Wright
Only in those few societies that had undergone the early health transition, and learned to control the wild oscillations of epidemic disease early on, could the mortality crises of modernity seem like something from another epoch. Indeed, the success of containment efforts in protecting industrializing societies from the new threats of the period might be ranked among the more underappreciated accomplishments of the wonderful century. Unfortunately, the benefits were not universally shared.
Plagues Upon the Earth
Kyle Harper
“Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”
No Plot? No Problem!
Chris Baty
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