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by bell-cot 1031 days ago
> We certainly shouldn’t give up on new research but I wouldn’t be so quick to...

My point was: We should continue with research as if this vaccine-drug combo had proven useless - because even if it is somehow perfect now, malaria might well evolve resistance to it faster than the Next Effective Thing can be discovered and brought to market.

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I guess my thought was just to avoid giving the impression that this isn’t a big advance for millions of people even if it’s not perfect or permanent.