Time Magazine International Edition

The Race for a Vaccine Against This Virus, and the Ones Coming After

HEN CHINESE RESEARCHERS PUBlicly posted the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus, scientists got busy. Nearly a dozen pharmaceutical companies launched programs to develop drugs or vaccines against the new virus, 2019-nCoV. Both are needed, but vaccines are preferable to drugs, since immunizing people against infections is the best way to prevent spread of the disease and protect entire populations. Members of the infectious-disease

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Time Magazine International Edition

Time Magazine International Edition3 min read
Stepping Up
Where do you find influence in 2024? You can start with the offices of the Anti-Corruption Foundation in Vilnius, Lithuania, where TIME met with Yulia Navalnaya earlier this spring. There, the activist is working with 60 supporters—whose anti-Kremlin
Time Magazine International Edition1 min read
The Leadership Brief
Rachel Botsman, one of the leading experts on trust, believes we’re thinking about it all wrong. We hear a lot that trust is in decline. That’s not your view, is it? Trust is like energy—it doesn’t get destroyed; it changes form. It’s not a question
Time Magazine International Edition3 min read
Robert D. Bullard
I am a Proud Boomer and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. I am also an environmental-justice fighter. When I began this work in 1979, environmental justice was a footnote. Through our efforts, it is now a headline. But these days, millennials, Genera

Related Books & Audiobooks