I don’t see this covered anywhere, but then I am still quite lost on the new site format so please tell me if this has already been covered.
The times is reporting that the US Government announced today that it has contracted with Pfizer and a German pharmaceutical company for 600 million doses of a vaccine with 100 million “promised” before the end of the year. Here’s the link to the Times story.
I don’t have a lot to add to this other than this is suspiciously fast for a vaccine to be created, tested, and brought to market. As pro-vaccine as I am normally, anything that the current administration rushed to market in this fashion would scare me almost as much as the virus has me scared.
I’ve got to get back to work. Work these days being looking for work. So use this as an open thread, and if anyone writes a substantive diary on this topic let me know and I’ll take this down.
Update: slight change to the title.