Reliance on the private market to develop vaccines has failed, leaving us vulnerable to pandemics such as COVID-19, public health experts say | liammannix
Reliance on the private market to develop vaccines has failed, leaving us vulnerable to pandemics such as COVID-19, public health experts say.revealed on Sunday at least three SARS vaccines that may have prevented COVID-19 were cut off from funding as they were about to go into clinical trials.
The final study needed for a vaccine to be approved is much more expensive than a similar study for a drug because the study needs to be huge to definitively show prevention of a disease – “tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of participants”, said Professor Sullivan. Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, said it was very difficult to get funding for research on vaccines for viruses that have not yet become pandemics.
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