Mary Wilson
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Nov. 5, 2021 9:29 am ET
By Thomas J. Bollyky
We can now develop vaccines at record speed in response to a pandemic, but we need new ways to distribute them to everyone on the planet
In January 2020, three men in a bar in Davos, Switzerland, first sketched a plan to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 on a napkin.
It was an act of desperation. News had just broken of a fast-spreading outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. There was no global entity with the mandate or money to develop and manufacture a vaccine available to every nation, and the most recent precedent wasn’t encouraging. In 2009, researchers developed a vaccine against the H1N1 influenza virus in just seven months, but wealthy nations bought virtually all the supplies.
Listen to article: 3 minutes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/getting-vaccines-to-the-world-next-time-11636118973
By Thomas J. Bollyky
We can now develop vaccines at record speed in response to a pandemic, but we need new ways to distribute them to everyone on the planet
In January 2020, three men in a bar in Davos, Switzerland, first sketched a plan to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 on a napkin.
It was an act of desperation. News had just broken of a fast-spreading outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. There was no global entity with the mandate or money to develop and manufacture a vaccine available to every nation, and the most recent precedent wasn’t encouraging. In 2009, researchers developed a vaccine against the H1N1 influenza virus in just seven months, but wealthy nations bought virtually all the supplies.
Listen to article: 3 minutes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/getting-vaccines-to-the-world-next-time-11636118973