A Harvard Medical School Professor on the Race for a Vaccine

We spoke to Kenneth H. Mayer — a professor at Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health — about the race for a vaccine.

Photo by Ryan N. Gajarawala

By Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer

As the coronavirus pandemic nears its first birthday, cases in the U.S. continue to rise in some areas. With that continued danger, of course, comes increasing hunger for vaccines and treatments that will help bring the crisis to a close. 

Much of the work to make those remedies real is hap…