Health 360: Hantavirus on cruise sparks global scare, cancer myths busted and more
Health 360: Hantavirus on cruise sparks global scare, cancer myths busted and more
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The announcement on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957. Instead it was met by doubts about the science and safety.
But it also underscored how, like the space race, the competition to have the first vaccine is about international rivalries as well as science. The first nation to develop a way to defeat the novel coronavirus will achieve a kind of moonshot victory and the global status that goes along with it. Certainly, Russia is not alone in viewing a vaccine in this light. China, where the virus first emerged, has also raced to make progress on a vaccine.
Health 360: Hantavirus on cruise sparks global scare, cancer myths busted and more
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