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COVAX now has agreements in place to access nearly two billion doses of several promising vaccine candidates, and laid the groundwork for further doses to be secured through contributions from donors. billion donor-funded doses of approved vaccines in 2021 to the 92 low- and middle-income economies eligible for the COVAX AMC.
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When our backs were against the wall, the biotech/biopharma community came together to create not one, but two vaccines currently approved for emergency use in the U.S. I think most of what will happen in 2021 is an absolute direct result of the things the world has gone through in 2020. This has earned the industry a lot of respect.
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