The vaccines we have are good. But they could be so much better

Written by Michael V. Callahan, former Covid-19 special advisor to the assistant secretary for public health preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services, and was incident commander for nine international highly dangerous pathogen outbreaks. He is the director of Clinical Translation at the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

And by Mark C. Poznansky infectious diseases physician and director of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

Mass. General Vaccine Chief Warns Coronavirus Still ‘Highly Infectious’

Dr. Poznansky discusses the risk of COVID-19 transmission during crowded Memorial Day celebrations, as well as the current status of vaccine development.

“From a crowded pool party at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri to a street party in Daytona Beach, Florida, Memorial Day festivities brought hundreds close together in several U.S. cities Monday ⁠— largely without masks or other such precautions…”