What Do We Want? A Vaccine! When Do We Want It? It Depends!
People around the world will need a lot of safety reassurance to stop the pandemic.
Trials at warp speed.
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The Covid-19 vaccines are coming, with U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorizations possible seemingly as early as next month. This would be terrific news in the face of a deadly pandemic, writes Noah Feldman, and in keeping with federal law that allows such authorizations if it’s “reasonable to believe that the product may be effective.” Many Americans will understandably greet such an announcement with great suspicion, though, given the Trump administration’s record of overstating the efficacy of some Covid treatments and generally inviting skepticism about all its claims.