that was then, this is now


“With the requirement of quarantine in Britain, the time one needs to reserve for traveling to Manchester from much of Europe is two weeks, just like in the 17th century.”
—Lukasz Stanek*

from the Financial Times today, 2020-09-14:
The chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer has warned that not enough Covid-19 vaccines will be available for everyone in the world to be inoculated until the end of 2024 at the earliest.

Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, told the Financial Times that pharmaceutical companies were not increasing production capacity quickly enough to vaccinate the global population in less time.*



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