Today, the United States has tested its very first coronavirus vaccine.

It went to a volunteer that you see right here, 43-year-old Jennifer Haller, who is from Seattle.

That's one of the hardest hit areas for this virus in the nation, Washington State, with over 840 cases.

It's a fast-moving story, and she joins us right now, the very first coronavirus vaccine volunteer, Jennifer

Haller, and back with us for a medical perspective, Anne Rimeon, an epidemiologist at UCLA.

Jennifer, thank you for what you're doing. Obviously, this fits into a lot of the different ways

people are participating and trying to help around the nation.

And thank you for being willing to talk with us.

Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.

And I'm so excited to be the first person.

This is crazy.

Yeah, right?

Crazy is one word for it.

I think it's got to have a lot of different feelings for you.

Very straightforward. I'd love for you to just tell us, you know, as they say, in your own words,

how did this come about and walk us through what happened today?

Yeah, you know, just a couple weeks ago there was a call for volunteers and filled out a form and got a call back and went through the phone screen past that. I went in person for a physical exam, blood draw. Everything looked good there. And here we are.

I went in this morning at 8 a.m. and got the first dose. There it is. I am, you know, we feel all of us.

I know we feel so helpless.

Like, what can we do?

And I am so excited that there was actually something that I could do.

And I did it.

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