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Coronavirus vaccine test opens as US volunteer gets 1st shot

by AP Medical Writers
| March 16, 2020 10:05 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday -- leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.

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