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⇱ Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists


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A campaign to vaccinate people against COVID-19 in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in May. Credit: Guerchom Ndebo/Getty

Over the past six months, hundreds of millions of people around the world have rushed to follow in the footsteps of a 90-year-old British woman named Margaret Keenan.

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Nature 594, 164-167 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01505-x

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