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The Plague-Ground – A shot in the arm
Plague-GroundThe vaccine’s no longer coming. It’s here.
The trouble is, its presence is as spotty and enduring as our response to the pandemic itself. And by “here,” I don’t just mean Canada, but the world.
EU leaders on the weekend rushed…

The Plague-Ground – More Money Than Brains
Plague-GroundBut oh, what very big brains they have.
Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci are the scientists whose company, BioNTech, is partnering with Pfizer to produce the vaccine that is 90% effective against a virus that’s already killed a million of…

The Plague-Ground – Is the cavalry coming?
Plague-GroundThe fate-of-humankind question isn’t “When will a vaccine arrive?”
It’s also: “Who will take the vaccine?”
Two things happened last week to help us answer both.
Last Tuesday, the heads of five Big Pharma companies offered…