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Vaccinologist Dr Helen Petousis-Harris breaks down how a Covid-19 vaccine was developed so fast and what will happen next.
The long spotted nightmare was almost over. From her holiday Airbnb in France, vaccine expert Helen Petousis-Harris had just talked to Australian media about the final fizzling of Samoa s devastating measles epidemic.
But in that same room, in mid-December 2019, she watched a news report about an odd pneumonia emerging in China. A new nightmare was just beginning.
The Auckland University vaccinologist had criticised the government for New Zealand’s own measles epidemic, which we exported to Samoa. The Health Ministry had failed to plug immunisation gaps, despite repeated pleas, and a 2017 mumps outbreak that exposed the depletion of public health resources. The epidemic should never have happened, Petousis-Harris said. ....

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