While a vaccine may be successfully created in the near term, it appears long lasting immunity is still a huge question. From a recent San Francisco Chronicle article, “I just don’t see a vaccine coming anytime soon,” said Nevan Krogan, a molecular biologist and director of UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute, which works in partnership with 100 research laboratories. “People do have antibodies, but the antibodies are waning quickly.” And if antibodies diminish, “then there is a good chance the immunity from a vaccine would wane too.” The latest bad news came from scientists at King’s