ARTICLE | Product Development
CEPI says $2B needed for vaccine development
BioCentury is providing this story for free given the urgent need for information about the COVID-19 crisis. For more analysis, sign up for our daily email.
March 10, 2020 12:18 AM UTC
Updated on Mar 25, 2020 at 7:07 PM UTC
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations CEO Richard Hatchett says the organization urgently needs $2 billion to fund COVID-19 vaccine initiatives.
In a statement, Hatchett said CEPI’s COVID-19 vaccine funding “will be fully allocated by the end of March and without immediate additional financial contributions the vaccine programmes we have begun will not be able to progress and ultimately will not deliver the vaccines that the world needs.”...