Coronavirus: national pride has no place in vaccine development while a global pandemic is raging

Until late last year, scientists had been satisfied with a safe Covid-19 vaccine that was more than 50 per cent effective.That is a realistic expectation for a first-generation vaccine and it is how flu shots have fared.For a pandemic such as Covid-19, any means of cutting hospital admissions and the number of deaths was a relief.But expectations were raised after the two vaccines using mRNA technology achieved a surprising 95 per cent efficacy rate. There were reports some people in Western…

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