Aug.01 — Leon Panetta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, says the government needs a national strategy to distribute a coronavirus vaccine equally. He speaks on “Bloomberg Balance of Power.”
In This Story: Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.