One major reason vaccines are here before Christmas: the research community finally agreed that many of the required animal tests were useless. Skipping the tests as wasteful and unnecessary enabled Moderna and Pfizer to get to market sooner than normal. Instead of a process that could have taken years, two vaccines to fight the coronavirus have arrived in record time. Jeffrey Brown, PETA Science Advisor talks with Emil Guillermo about the significance of this move, not just to bring the world a vaccine quickly, but to hasten the day no animals will be killed in the regulatory test process.

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