Correction to last week's letter

While the injection of over 10 billion doses of a virus gene into hundreds of millions of people using a technology first used in humans in a small-scale clinical trial less than 10 years ago and without any long-term safety data is undoubtedly the largest and most risky biology experiment ever conducted on this earth; I must admit that I inadvertently failed to use the government-approved terminology for “EUA” in my response to Marshall last week. The official term for the FDA’s authorization for the use of this gene therapy in the United States is “Emergency Use Authorization” although “Expe...