Australians could wait for two and a half years for a widespread vaccine to counter the coronavirus, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned after being named to lead a global inquiry into the health crisis.
Warning of a crippling economic and social shock, Ms Clark called for a dramatic increase in global action to save countries from collapse as the pandemic gets worse.
"And even then we don’t know how efficacious it would be – it may not stop us getting it, it may simply mitigate the impact of getting it. While Nobel laureate Peter Doherty has expressed confidence a vaccine will be developed, Ms Clark emphasised she was speaking of a vaccine that would be tested and widely available to deal with the global threat.
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