Basic science helped us win World War II. It’s also why we’ll defeat COVID-19 | Opinion
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Dr. Jarrod W. Kile, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Infectious Diseases at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, loads a syringe with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorized COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Ten high-risk, front-line health care workers with Lehigh Valley Health Network received the vaccine. Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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By M. Anthony Mills
President Biden has announced a “full-scale wartime effort” to vaccinate the American people against the coronavirus. This is hardly the first time our struggle against the pandemic has been likened to warfare. Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership that helped spur the invention of two COVID-19 vaccines last year, has often been compared to the government’s programs during World War II to mobilize scientific knowled