Giving a helping hand in forging the sword of victory, reads an online post from SinoPharm with pictures of workers it says helped pre-test its vaccine. Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is the new Holy Grail, said Lawrence Gostin, a global public health law expert at Georgetown University. A researcher said team leader Chen Wei, a renowned military virologist, was the first to receive the experimental vaccine, one of the participants told state-owned Beijing News. CanSino and Chens Academy of Military Medical Sciences turned down requests for information and interviews. Modern international ethics rules require participants in medical research to be fully informed and to freely consent.