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Inside the race to develop a safe COVID-19 vaccine

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COVID-19 is interrupting lab animal research, sometimes fatally

Scientists across the country have needed to abruptly halt their work, leaving research animals in limbo.
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Coca-Cola funds health research—and can kill the studies it doesn’t like

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