#5SmartReads - August 4, 2020

On the vaccine race, the news outlet you need to know about, and quarantine productivity

Fauci Unfazed as Scientists Rely on Unproven Methods to Create COVID Vaccines (Kaiser Health News)

Misleading headline aside, this article does a really nice job of explaining the science and likelihood of the leading vaccine candidates for COVID.

This much is true - we are in uncharted waters in that we’ve never developed a successful coronavirus vaccine, or an mRNA based vaccine.

But it’s also been over a century since the last global pandemic, and I’ve never seen such organization and mobilization from the life sciences community to get a vaccine approved.