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Hold On, Help Is on the Way
SHORTLY BEFORE 7 A.M. ON JULY 27, 2020, DAWN BAKER, a television news anchor in Savannah, Georgia, was in a patient room at a medical clinic. She was wearing a mask. She pulled her purple jacket off to expose her left shoulder so that a tech could slip a needle into her and plunge Moderna’s mRNA vaccine into her body.
Baker was the first person to receive Moderna’s vaccine in the large Phase 3 study. She was nervous but felt strongly about being part of the trial. “It’s really exciting to me that I could be a part of saving lives eventually, instead of just being scared and praying,” Baker told CNN.1
Baker was the first of what Moderna and federal officials hoped would be thirty thousand volunteers to get the vaccine ...
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