How Seattle played a key role in developing the COVID-19 vaccine

How Seattle played a key role in developing the COVID-19 vaccine

December 14, 2021 | The coronavirus pandemic began less than two years ago, but it seems like a lifetime ago. It was on March 16, 2020, when the first participants of the Moderna clinical trials arrived at Kaiser Permanente Health Center in Seattle to receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In fact, many local organizations in Seattle, such as Fred Hutch, played a huge role in the history-making development of the vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed.