By MIKE MAGEE
In a 1996 JAMA editorial Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg MD wrote “Our fight with microbes is far from over …odds are tipped in their favor…they outnumber us a billion fold, and mutate a billion times more quickly…pitted against microbial genes, we humans mainly have our wits.”
Now three decades later, our scientists remain in a “battle of wits” with this amazing viral foe, but even without a vaccine, have maintained a slide edge for humanity. Experts recently confirmed that we are unlikely to have a vaccine bullet by 2030. And it’s not because we haven’t tried. There have been more than 250…
