The writer is director of The Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco
It is widely assumed that a Covid-19 vaccine will come to our rescue soon. This is unlikely to be true, but, more importantly, it is a dangerous assumption on which to plan the overall response to the pandemic.
In 1990, I hosted a London conference ironically titled “Malaria: Waiting for the Vaccine”. Malaria had been worsening and many believed that turning the tide was dependent on a vaccine. Years of research had failed to produce an effective product, but the vaccinologists were incorrigibly optimistic.
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