‘THE YEAR OF THE VACCINE’

WHAT COMES AFTER THE YEAR OF COVID?

Twelve months feels like a long time in a pandemic – when lockdowns have blurred weeks and months together, and special occasions have been postponed or cancelled – but it is no time at all when it comes to developing a vaccine.

The journey from identifying the need for a vaccine to getting a licensed product is a massive undertaking – one that typically takes years, if not decades, and costs billions of dollars.

But the rulebook has been rewritten in the face of the pandemic, and all eyes are on 2021 as “the year of the vaccine”.

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