Inside the 10-Month Sprint to Develop a Covid Vaccine

Listen to the head-spinning race that brought a Covid-19 vaccine to market quicker than ever before.

Naomi Kresge

01 Dec 2021, 12:23 PM IST

Inside the 10-Month Sprint to Develop a Covid Vaccine

A technician wearing a protective suit wheels a trolley of material. (Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg)

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Two biotech companies, Germany’s BioNTech and the U.S.’s Moderna, decided in January 2020 to wager their futures on developing a messenger RNA shot to fight Covid-19. What ensued was a head-spinning race to bring a vaccine to market quicker than ever before.