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Researchers have started coronavirus vaccine testing in people.
Healthy volunteers in Seattle are getting shots to see if the potential COVID-19 vaccine works.
SOUNDBITE Jennifer Haller, study participant:
"Everybody is feeling so helpless right now and I've realized that there was something that I could do to help and I'm excited to be here."
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lisa Jackson, Kaiser Permanente investigator leading the study:
"We are conducting the first test of the first vaccine against the new coronavirus that has made it this far to be eligible for testing in humans. So we're getting the first information possible about something that could potentially help in the future."
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lisa Jackson, Kaiser Permanente investigator leading the study:
"There's no chance of getting coronavirus from the vaccine. The vaccine is not made from the virus. It does not have any part of the virus. It includes a genetic code that instructs the cells in the body to make a protein that the virus has in order to induce an immune response against that protein."
The vaccine was co-developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lisa Jackson, Kaiser Permanente investigator leading the study:
"About 45 people will get the vaccine. And we'll closely follow them throughout their 13 months of being in the study and look for reactions to the vaccine, as well as any other health events that they might have during that period."
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lisa Jackson, Kaiser Permanente investigator leading the study:
"Going from not even knowing that this virus was out there, which we then identified it as being the cause of infection in China in January, to having a vaccine that we can actually initiate a clinical trial in about two months is unprecedented."
Dozens of research groups are racing to create vaccines against the pandemic.
But it will still take more than a year before any vaccine could be ready for widespread use.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Haller, study participant:
"I hope that we get to a working vaccine quickly and that we can save lives."
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