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Big news: COVID-19 is making headlines—and stoking anxieties—across the globe. But in positive news, a potential vaccine is already on its way to clinical trials. Success isn’t guaranteed, but the pace—three months from Chinese scientists’ online publication of the virus’s genetic sequence to the first human tests—is “unquestionably the world indoor record,” according to the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.