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It is a story that began three decades ago, with a little-known scientist who refused to quit.

Decades-long funding cuts for pandemic preparedness hamper coordinated distribution and equitable access. We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

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Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.

The office was dedicated to the long-term safety of vaccines. Experts say plans to track coronavirus vaccines are fragmented and "behind the eight ball."

The months ahead will be difficult. But the medical cavalry is coming, and the rest of us know what we need to do. The final death toll from Covid-19 will depend both on how we behave going forward and how quickly innovations arrive.

Immunization has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us.

The polio vaccine highlights the networks of women—some scientists, some not, some named, and some not—who made the laborious, costly, and difficult work of vaccine development possible.

How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price.