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.
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A Covid-19 vaccine could take a long time. Some scientists are proposing a controversial plan that could get us one faster.
Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn-out illness. A decline in antibodies is normal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways.
Access to medicine is an ethical problem, not a scientific one. And any COVID-19 vaccine is likely to have a high price tag and be unequally distributed according to countries’ purchasing power.
Until we have effective and safe medications, a proven vaccine and better testing, our best shot at getting control would be to again close many businesses and activities.
Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.
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