With so many experts around the world racing to develop a vaccine for coronavirus you’d think getting there would be relatively easy - but there’s a major hurdle in the way. COVID19
Public entities want to help but don’t have the cash, while big pharmaceuticals have the money but not the motivations because they see greater returns on investments in other treatments.
She says her team is most likely to be the first to be successful, delivering a vaccine a year sooner than goals set by pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline. Vaccine development usually takes between five to 10 years and pharmaceutical companies say it costs them between $1.5 and $3 billion to get to the final stage of rollout.
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