The Most Impressive Woman on Corona

is Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of a book on plagues. Very no-nonsense and frank. Something of a Cassandra, she doesn’t think the miracle vaccine will be unpatented (whoever the discoverer is will want to make a profit and not share it with the world) and that the vaccine will likely not be shared in any case with every corner of the planet, which it needs to be. Her view of the current problems, particularly in the U.S.,is that there is no overall goal for dealing with the virus, only agenda tactics at micro-levels. She is way more impressive and compelling than kow-towing, cowardly, smilling-at-any-bad-news Birkz ever was at her best.