From WSJopinion: If another country makes a Covid-19 vaccine first, it may be slow to share. It’s time for the U.S. to speed up trials and ramp up manufacturing scale, writes ScottGottliebMD.
Potomac Watch: Drug companies will save lives, even as Bernie Sanders is denouncing them. Images: Getty/DDP via ZUMA Press Composite: Mark KellyThe first nation to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 could have an economic advantage as well as a tremendous public-health achievement.
Doses will be limited initially as suppliers ramp up, and a country will focus on inoculating most of its own population first. Even with extraordinary international collaboration among multiple companies, it could be years before a vaccine is produced at a scale sufficient to help the entire world. The first country to the finish line will be first to restore its economy and global influence. America risks being second.
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