Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Russia’s Vaccine Shortcut Won't End This Pandemic

We're still in this for the long haul, barring a magic wormhole.

No magic elixir.

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Look, we get it. 2020 has been a long six years already, and there’s still a ways to go before this pandemic ends. Everybody’s looking for shortcuts. We keep watching the news for miracle cures, mutations or space-time wormholes that will get us to the end of this nightmare. But they haven’t appeared yet.