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Earlier this week, Moncef Slaoui received the fruits of his labor: the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, from Moderna. “I feel a joy I am sure every person that has been vaccinated has felt a form of liberation,” says the former scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, the crash U.S. program that invested $11 billion in developing vaccines for the pandemic and purchasing hundreds of millions of doses.
The Moroccan-born immunologist recently resigned from his post, but is “very supportive” of the new Biden administration he s a Democrat and has agreed to help its transition team into February. Talking with