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International Statistic of the Year: Race for a COVID-19 vaccine – The Conversation US
The coronavirus vaccine was developed faster than any vaccine in history. It took just 332 days from the first sequencing of the virus genome to the first vaccines…
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Scientists in China published the complete genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 on Jan. 10, 2020. On Dec. 8, 2020, health officials in London began administering an effective coronavirus vaccine to the public. The global scientific community successfully developed a COVID-19 vaccine in just 332 days.
I am a statistician, and this year I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Societys International Statistic of the Year. Much like Oxford English Dictionarys Word of the Year competition,…
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