Vaccine Wars | Big Pharma's Big Gamble Pays Off | 7

Business Wars

• Episode: Vaccine Wars | Big Pharma's Big Gamble Pays Off | 7
• Website: Business Wars
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• Duration: 00:23:03
• Published: 2021-05-10 11:00

BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca. These companies are now household names thanks to their COVID-19 vaccines. The gambles these businesses took are paying off. 

The pharmaceutical giants are in line to profit heavily from their life-saving work, but the system of distributing the vaccines has seen its fair share of hiccups and controversy.

We spoke to Annalisa Merelli, a healthcare reporter for Quartz about the pandemic, the economic effects of the vaccine rollout and the current surge in COVID cases in India.

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