//Initial trial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine began one year ago

Initial trial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine began one year ago

One year ago Moderna began the first phase of testing a coronavirus vaccine.The vaccine from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company was given to the first of 45 participants in the Phase 1 trial on March 16, 2020. The testing that would ultimately lead to authorization of the vaccine began with a careful jab at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle.The first patient was