Bridging the gap between the bedside and the bench in the fight against COVID-19
On March 16 — the same day that the nation’s first shelter-in-place orders were announced in the San Francisco Bay Area — a Seattle woman rolled up her sleeve to take the first experimental dose of a possible COVID-19 vaccine.
“We all feel so helpless,” she told reporters. “This is an amazing opportunity for me to do this.”
Also making history that day was Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH, physician-researcher with a …