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WHO: There may never be a Covid-19 'silver bullet'

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Published Mon, Aug 3, 2020 · 11:19 AM

    [GENEVA] The World Health Organization said Monday that there might never be a "silver bullet" answer to the new coronavirus, despite the rush to discover effective vaccines.

    "There is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference in Geneva.

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