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Covid 19 coronavirus: How a David and a Goliath sprinted ahead in the vaccine race

By Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Denise Grady
New York Times·
20 mins to read
Covid 19 coronavirus: How a David and a Goliath sprinted ahead in the vaccine race
Covid 19 coronavirus: How a David and a Goliath sprinted ahead in the vaccine race

The furious race to develop a coronavirus vaccine played out against a presidential election, between a pharmaceutical giant and a biotech upstart, with the stakes as high as they could get.

The call was tense, the message discouraging. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the Trump administration's effort to quickly produce

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