Mark Gongloff, Columnist

What If Your Fourth Covid Shot Could Last Forever?

Instead of cooking up a new vaccine for each new variant, we could make one vaccine for all the variants.

January 20, 2022 at 4:59 PM EST

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

What if all you needed was one more dose?
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Back in August, this newsletter joked about Covid dragging into 2025, because what could be funnier than an endless pandemic, am I right? (The answer is everything: Everything is funnier than an endless pandemic. Eczema is funnier than an endless pandemic.) Then last month, Pfizer’s CEO said he expected the Covid pandemic to drag into 2024, but he was not joking.

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