- Mark Coughlan, Prime Time "If there was ever a good time for this to happen, it's kind of now", Professor Luke O'Neill from Trinity College Dublin tells me.
In the last 15 years, what science understands about vaccines and viruses has developed hugely. Now, that knowledge is being put to the test, to put it mildly.
Across the world, medical scientists are working hour-by-hour to try to us get beyond our new day-to-day existence. The pandemic has sparked a global scientific response, which is moving at incredible pace. "It's amazing", says Dr Fiachra Humphries, an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "Chinese researchers published the genome sequence, two days after that a company called Moderna had a candidate