“Of course, we didn’t put Democrats in the vial; we didn’t put Republicans in the vial,” University of Washington’s Dr. Larry Corey writes in a recent COVID-19 Vaccine Matters blog jointly produced by Johns Hopkins University and the UW. While development of vaccines now being distributed to combat COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus, are a “remarkable achievement” that demonstrate the power of science to save lives, mistrust and fear continue to cause nearly 40% of Americans to say they would be unlikely to get vaccinated. Larry Corey Some of that mistrust stems from before the pandemic, but unfortunate politicization of COVID-19 vaccine development is also to blame. When the current administration jumped in to claim credit for the rapid development of the vaccines, that act personalized the science behind its creation.