"Surely it'd be better overall if U.S. coronavirus case counts were declining everywhere. But one offset is that Phase Three testing of vaccines will be much faster and easier with the virus running relatively rampant than they would be with the virus scarce," Silver Lining to Rising Case Counts, FutureOfCapitalism.com, July 15, 2020.
"In Phase 3 researchers track infection rates in 30,000 or so volunteers given vaccines or placebos. One small silver lining of the virus's summer resurgence is it could accelerate vaccine results," A Vaccine Progress Report, Wall Street Journal editorial, July 22 (in print July 23), 2020