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One shot to change the world
Don’t believe the doubters
In labs around the country, Australian scientists are confident that a vaccine for COVID-19 can be found – and sooner than we think.
- Amanda Hooton
- Brisbane Times
In the beginning, we had only the human body and its inherent ability to fight disease.
Then – at some point after we emerged from the primeval swamp, developed an opposable thumb, and picked our first therapeutic herb – we had medicine.
And now we have a world in which diseases are found and fought in laboratories a thousand miles from any suffering human frame.
On the spectrum…