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Lives Lost As Vaccine Programs Face Delays

From the Washington Post:

"If we can cut the lag time from 30 years to a decade or less, that's 20 years of lives saved," said Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council, an advocacy group in White River Junction, Vt.

The sentiment, however valid, is a measure of the degree to which the public-health world has become accustomed to death on a mass scale.