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Who Can Make mRNA Vaccines?
Stephanie NolenReporting on Covid vaccine access
The technology is new, but Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna found ways to start production quickly. BioNTech went to a former cancer drug maker in Germany to make its shot. Moderna shipped its producers a modular kit, kind of like an Ikea kitchen.
What’s essential is a company that does high-quality medicine production, plus a regulating body that can enforce top standards.
From my years of reporting on global health, I knew of candidates in developing countries.