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The head of this "Star Trek" program, Moncef Slaoui, a former executive at Moderna, which is developing a vaccine in coordination with the government, said, “Frankly, 12 to 18 months is already a very aggressive timeline.” Slaoui benefited from a bump in his company's stock price in response to encouraging news about vaccine development because he still had millions invested even after he was appointed to head the government's vaccine effort. In response to criticism about this gross conflict, he sold Moderna stock and donated the gains to cancer research. “In the best of circumstances, we should have a vaccine—or let’s say vaccines—between 12 and 18 months,” says Stanley Plotkin, the individual credited with creating the rubella vaccine in the 1960s. Even if a vaccine is widely available by January, 2021 polls indicate only 50% of 'Mericans would be willing to take it. Herd immunity, USA!
US COVID Deaths (est.): 142,300
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