The U.K. is the first country to authorize a fully tested COVID-19 vaccine

 Colin Schaller 

This article is about how the U.K. is the first country to allow its inhabitants to get the Covid-19 vaccination. It goes on to describe the long process of testing the vaccine on animals especially monkeys. It talks about how the monkey population is now at an all time low. Due to Covid-19 monkey farms have become a new job. They raise the monkeys and then sell them to the testing labs. The U.K. is going to receving 40 million doses of the vaccination in  2020-21. This article relates to our previous class unit when we were talking about population density. Due to Covid-19 the world population has gone down in a vast number. Since the start of the disease we have lost 1.5 million people. Also it has to due with the wealth of countries. Due to the fact that the most wealthy countries are going to receive the vaccination first. 


Link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-pfizer-uk-first-approval


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  1. AnonymousDecember 15, 2020 at 12:33 PM

    To hear about different vaccines coming out it is both wonderful and concerning. I fear that the high demand may lead to a few missed steps to quickly get it to the people. I hope the vaccine is able to save and help a lot of people in the next few months.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2021 at 5:18 AM

    The news about us having a vaccine too is good, but there could be some nasty side affects on people. Also, with so many people needing it would we have enough?

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2021 at 6:04 PM

    This document is interesting to me because monkeys are the closest animal on Earth that relate to humans. If the monkeys react well to the vaccine, then possibly humans will as well

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