{"id":102922,"date":"2020-02-27T02:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/coronavirus-highlights-the-35-billion-vaccine-market-here-are-the-key-players"},"modified":"2020-02-27T02:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:22:47","slug":"coronavirus-highlights-the-35-billion-vaccine-market-here-are-the-key-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/coronavirus-highlights-the-35-billion-vaccine-market-here-are-the-key-players","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus highlights the $35 billion vaccine market. Here are the key players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-highlights-the-35-billion-vaccine-market-here-are-the-key-players.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus outbreak is bringing attention to the fast-growing vaccine industry.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine market has grown sixfold over the past two decades, worth more than $35 billion today, according to AB Bernstein. The firm said the industry has consolidated to four big players that account for about 85% of the market \u2014 British drugmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=GSK-GB\">GlaxoSmithKline<\/a>, French pharmaceutical company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=SAN-FR\">Sanofi<\/a>, and U.S.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=MRK\">Merck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=PFE\">Pfizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor every dollar invested in vaccination in the world\u2019s 94 lowest-income countries, the net return is $44. Hard to argue against,\u201d Wimal Kapadia, Bernstein\u2019s analyst, said in a note. \u201cThis oligopoly has been built through significant market consolidation driven primarily by the complexities of the manufacturing and supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus outbreak is bringing attention to the fast-growing vaccine industry. The vaccine market has grown sixfold over the past two decades, worth more than $35 billion today, according to AB Bernstein. The firm said the industry has consolidated to four big players that account for about 85% of the market \u2014 British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}