100-day vaccine development – can it happen before the next pandemic? Dr Richard Hatchett, CEPI

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SARS has a mortality rate of 20-30 times of COVID. For the next pandemic what will we do? Head of the Centre Robin Davies talks with Richard Hatchett from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) about the work they are doing with the support of Australia and other countries to invest in research, production and distribution of vaccines to fight MERS, SARS and COVID. What are lessons for responding to emerging infectious diseases and the growing threat they pose to global health security?

“We're a little over a year and a half into our relationship with this virus, and we've already delivered according to WHO, somewhere on the order of three and a half billion doses of vaccine, which is miraculous. No one would have predicted, you know, by the middle of 2021, that 3.5 billion doses of vaccine would have would have been delivered…but it’s not fast enough.”

Links for further reading

https://cepi.net

https://indopacifichealthsecurity.dfat.gov.au/coalition-epidemic-preparedness-innovations-cepi

Tags: #COVID19, #EndPandemics, #COVAX

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