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Sep 14, 2020

There Won’t Be Enough COVID Vaccines for Everybody Until 2024, Warn Vaccine Makers

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“It’s going to take four to five years until everyone gets the vaccine on this planet,” Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, told the newspaper.

Dragging down the feasibility, Poonwalla says that such a vaccine would likely need to include a second booster shot, like for the measles or rotavirus vaccine. That would mean 15 billion doses in total for the entire globe.

“I know the world wants to be optimistic on it… [but] I have not heard of anyone coming even close to that [level] right now,” Poonawalla added.

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