The COVID-19 vaccines arrived in record time, triggering a question that echoed across dinner tables and social media feeds worldwide: How could something developed in months be trusted when vaccines typically take a decade?
The answer lies not in cut corners, but in unprecedented global collaboration and scientific groundwork laid long before the pandemic began. Researchers didn’t start from scratch in 2020. They built upon decades of coronavirus research following the SARS and MERS outbreaks, which meant scientists already understood how these viruses worked and how our immune systems could fight them.
Three key …
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