Health
Coronavirus: how the pharma industry is changing to produce a vaccine on time – Australian Times
To bring COVID-19 under control a vaccine needs to be available to every nation, rich and poor – and it needs to happen quickly.
Beatrice Melinek, UCL and Stephen Morris, UCL
To bring COVID-19 under control a vaccine needs to be available to every nation, rich and poor and it needs to happen quickly. But pharmaceutical breakthroughs are usually the result a slow process involving competition, secrecy, risky investments and extensive trials.
It normally takes ten years to produce a vaccine. Mongkolchon Akesin/Shutterstock
Changing any big industry to speed its processes up is going to be difficult. But there are signs t…
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