It’s encouraging to see the international efforts to develop vaccines against COVID-19. China and Russia are trying to keep pace with the West in that scientific race, which includes research sites in Charleston. The safe, effective vaccines that emerge from this competition will benefit everyone.

China’s vaccines might prove useful, but its vaccine candidates follow older production techniques, including a manufacturing process requiring hundreds of million of chicken eggs, that are notorious for their slowness. As Bloomberg Opinion writer Tyler

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