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Global health funders plan to buy 15 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses

June 17, 2020 9:13 PM UTC

The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator plans to make advance purchase commitments for more than 15 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines over six years, starting with 1.1 billion in 2021.

The accelerator is a collaboration created in April by global health and private sector organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...