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How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take?
Therapeutic drugs, rather than vaccines, might likewise change the fight against Covid-19.
While some steps in the vaccine timeline can be fast-tracked or skipped entirely, approvals aren’t one of them. There are horror stories from the past where vaccines were not properly tested. In the 1950s, for example, a poorly produced batch of a polio vaccine was approved in a few hours. It contained a version of the virus that wasn’t quite dead, so patients who got it actually contracted polio. Several children died.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html
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MIT Sloan models track COVID-19 spread in communities and predict patient outcomes
And MIT group of researchers led by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas built website tools allowing anybody to access the following information: 130+ i...