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Researcher Noe Mercado spent most of his time this March studying nasal samples from monkeys that had been injected with experimental vaccines and then exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the same time, research assistant Katherine McMahan worked on testing "Spike" antibodies in mice. Mercado, Dan Barouch and their colleagues at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston are at advanced stages of testing vaccine candidates in monkeys, and clinical trials in humans are expected to begin soon.
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Translation: Let the Patients Live