Monday brought the most promising news so far in the pharmaceutical fight against Covid-19: a candidate vaccine has prevented more than 90% of symptomatic infections among people who received it in a large clinical trial.

By the end of this month Pfizer and BioNTech are expected to have enough data to apply for emergency use of the vaccine. With luck, it appears that 25-million people could be vaccinated by the end of the year, and during 2021 about 650-million more...

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