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Covid vaccine approval just a beginning, production hurdles to cause delays

There are four main challenges that must be addressed as soon as possible if a vaccine is to be produced quickly and at a large scale

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The shrinking and outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing capacity has reached into all sectors. Vaccines are no exception.

Bruce Y. Lee | The Conversation
The race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is well underway. It’s tempting to assume that once the first vaccine is approved for human use, all the problems of this pandemic will be immediately solved. Unfortunately, that is not exactly the case.

Developing a new vaccine is only the first part of the complex journey that’s supposed to end with a return to some sort of normal life. Producing hundreds of millions of vaccines for the U.S. – and billions for the world as a whole – will be no small feat. There are many