Are animals getting the COVID-19 vaccine before people? Is it the same vaccine?

Primates from the San Diego Zoo recently got vaccinated for COVID-19, igniting social media claims mistaking the human coronavirus vaccine with the one animals received.

But that vaccine, in reality, has no bearing on the one humans get.

WHY WE ARE VERIFYING
Since a population of apes got an experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the San Diego Zoo, people on social media have claimed animals have “skipped the line” and were vaccinated before humans, which is not the case.

The San Diego Zoo apes got a vaccine specifically developed for animals — meaning it’s not suitable for humans — and was approved by a different health authority, the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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