Sui-Lee Wee, NYT

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Future vaccines depend on supply of monkeys

Researchers in US, China grapple with shortage of research animals at height of COVID-19

Pink-faced rhesus macaque monkeys at the Tulane University National Primate Research Centre in Covington, La., outside New Orleans, on Feb. 12, 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the United States’ dependence on China for research animals, reviving calls for a "strategic monkey reserve."

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