The pharmaceutical industry says it would make sure a coronavirus vaccine"will be available" to everyone"who needs it" across the globe AFP/Ed JONESGENEVA: The pharmaceutical industry expects it will take 12 to 18 months to roll out a coronavirus vaccine, executives said on Thursday , as they jointly pledged to make it available worldwide based on need.
"When you think about how many people we will want to vaccinate - once we have a vaccine - around the world, we're talking billions, and that's a huge challenge," said David Loew, the executive vice-president of Sanofi Pasteur. "You're injecting this into healthy people, so you don't want to have suddenly people getting sick because you are short-cutting," said Loew.
Venkayya added that some, if not most of the testing programmes being run, would fail to produce a viable vaccine.
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