I watched the whole thing, thank you for sharing the link. Most I knew but clarified well here. I especially liked what he said at the end which wasn't science but his perspective about what's happened and how we constantly slowly adjust to a new world. And then about politics specifically in that context, that's it's no longer got to be we won that or we fixed that but that politics needs to change to a dashboard, step by step, what worked, what didn't, where are we now. 

The irony is that the economic fallout it's a worldwide problem but we've got a virus that makes for quarantine between nations. So it's not like a world war, where there's just two teams and you can chart the battles, who's winning this week. Many many nations competing with one another on the recovery...get what I am saying? It's the same concept of the Hanseactic League "bingo" about the mayors, I guess

On vaccine: I am much more optimistic than you from what he said, even though he strongly warned about high expectations using past examples, he also noted the extra fervor here and how amazed he is at all the entries into the race already and also all the new "sexy" ways nerds are thinking up for making vaccines. What he didn't mention: the profit motive working against the clock with more altruistically motivated, and throw in those who are doing it because "sexy", you've got a huge race to see who can be first across the finish line. If the profit seekers don't beat the altruistic to the finish line, they lose everything they invested.

This is not polio nor AIDS. This is a much much huger market that is desperate. But even the relatively tiny market that AIDS delivered inspired the profit seekers to move as faat as they could and price gouge as long as they could. Remember the astronomical prices for the first AIDS drugs? Profit seekers in this biz know they got a short window from the getgo to make profits, and they will soon be regulated to stop gouging, just from vox populi,  they build that in, they know if it really works that's all they get.

It's a huge race between all the different motives. What will amaze me more: if it really does take 18 months. I'm like: no way, not with this economic devastation to almost every class.