It's an unprecedented effort: the US government is investing more than $3 billion to come up with a vaccine against the coronavirus. Here's an explanation of where this money is going.
It's an unprecedented effort: the US government is investing more than $3 billion to come up with a vaccine against the coronavirus.
That's a lot of money. It's more than half the annual budget for the state of Vermont. It's about what Louisiana spends on its Medicaid patients in one year. But a vaccine is our surest pathway out of the pandemic -- the surest way to go back to normal. Here's an explanation of where this money is going. How vaccines work First, a short explanation of how vaccines work. When your body is attacked by a virus, your immune system makes antibodies to fight it off.
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