A Brief History of Vaccines

Jennifer R. Povey
6 min readJun 10, 2020
Photo by CDC on Unsplash

We’re all watching for a vaccine for COVID-19, which sadly probably won’t come until mid to late 2021 if all goes well. (Most likely, what will get us out of having to do social distancing will not be a vaccine but a reliable treatment).

Vaccines have been controversial of late, with the anti-vax movement causing its various issues. But vaccines remain one of our biggest medical breakthroughs as a species.

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.