Good news for a change. Numbers of Covid deaths are going down but are still about a 1,000 US deaths per day. More good news is a pill that is 50% effective in keeping early Covid infections out of the hospital.
Over a year and a half ago there was a celebration at NIH of a group of folks we know who had succeded in making a Malaria vaccine. It is now being manufactured by Glaxo Smith. NIH does not self promote like the March of dimes, it just finds cures. Which reminds me that the new HIV vaccine is going into test phase. The Omni flu vaccine is still plugging away but won't give up the NIH 100 year commitment.