Is There a Ring Vaccination Strategy?

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CNN's John Defterios asks: Why didn't we just do ring vaccination with a vax tit took a day to make and stuffd that one out and wohan? Well, that would have required the wohan officials to actually inform the bajing central government that there was a problem in a timely manner. And so how can we really do this ring vaccination strategy? The obvious rebuttal to that is, you'r gongto ae the same problem if you have 350 million stock piled copies of a vaccine that itself by definition, has not yet been tested and approved because there was no pandemic against which to test it. But i do actually want to add something

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