China reaches billion doses mark … now for the next billion

Imagine how reassuring it would have seemed if it had been foretold, when Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, that China alone would have administered more than 1 billion doses of vaccines by now. Beginning from scratch with the creation of home-grown vaccines followed by testing in the field ahead of an inoculation campaign, it is a monumental achievement.Alas, there are two reasons it is too early to relax. One is that China has to repeat the feat to achieve the herd immunity needed before…

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