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The Nuance

Is a Covid-19 Vaccine Actually Possible?

Experts are optimistic, but new vaccine ‘platforms’ are relatively untested

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
6 min readJun 18, 2020

Since the earliest days of America’s Covid-19 crisis, Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top coronavirus expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that — best case scenario — a…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.