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An engineer looks at monkey kidney cells as he make a test on an experimental vaccine for COVID-19 at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing on April 29, 2020.

Photographer: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

The race for a coronavirus vaccine is striving to reach a speed that Albert Einstein said was impossible to reach.

Channeling his inner Trekkie, President Donald Trump unveiled Operation Warp Speed to develop a medicine by year's end. He compared it with the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. Different results, but the intentions are similar.