Your weekend long reads 🗞️

Good morning, friends of the Short List! We hope the weekend finds you happy and healthy.

It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge (and negative) impact on all of our lives. Finally, however, good news has arrived in the form of vaccines to battle the dangerous virus. This week, President Joe Biden said he expects the majority of the U.S. population can be vaccinated by summer's end or early fall. Here is some of USA TODAY's best reporting on the vaccine - how it was developed, how the rollout is going, and why you shouldn't be worried about it.

• Luck, foresight and science: Credit for Moderna's dates back 15 years
• Vaccine panel pans vaccine rollout, but predicts things will improve
• Not a real thing at all: The vaccines don't contain a tracking device

Feeling better? Wait till you see the rest of the long reads below!