Pharmaceutical chief executives leading efforts to tackle coronavirus have warned governments to step up co-ordination and provide substantial upfront funding if treatments, vaccines and testing are to be rolled out faster and fairly.
David Loew, executive vice-president of Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine producer, said a swift commitment totalling “billions” of dollars was needed from governments to underwrite purchases of the most promising experimental vaccines even before final proof they work.
“If industry does not know if there will be a market in 18 months, [it] cannot carry all [the costs]. Industry alone can’t provide all the investment needed now for billions of doses,” he said in an interview.
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