One of the best ways to save humanity from a global pandemic in the future is by developing infectious disease vaccines now. But research has been sluggish, partly because no one knows how much producing such vaccines would cost.
That changed last week when researchers from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) published a study in Lancetestimating the cost of developing vaccines for diseases that have the potential to escalate into global humanitarian crises.
Preventing pandemics is extremely important work: In the next two decades, experts believe, there is a reasonable probability of a pandemic that kills more than 30 million people worldwide. Compare that to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,000 people across three countries ? partially because we didn?t have a vaccine at the time.
That changed last week when researchers from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) published a study in Lancetestimating the cost of developing vaccines for diseases that have the potential to escalate into global humanitarian crises.
Preventing pandemics is extremely important work: In the next two decades, experts believe, there is a reasonable probability of a pandemic that kills more than 30 million people worldwide. Compare that to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,000 people across three countries ? partially because we didn?t have a vaccine at the time.
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