Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population”

20 May 2020

Daphné Dupont-Nivet

Health/Vaccines

Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population”

Daphné Dupont-Nivet

20 May 2020

About Vaccines

The world urgently needs 20 billion doses of a vaccine that will protect global citizens against the coronavirus. States are throwing huge sums of public money at the race to beat Covid-19, but who will get there first? Will Big Pharma focus on private profit? Will vaccine nationalism prevail, or will the patent be shared to create a low-cost global supply?

Professor Schellekens discusses the dilemmas inherent in the world being dependent on the centralised production and distribution of medicines by Big Pharma. Is Sanofi the only company that has the capacity to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine in Europe? The important question we are facing now is: who can provide the quantities that are needed for [...]

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Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population&#8221;

Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population&#8221;

About Vaccines

Cross-border stories from a changing Europe.

Cross-border stories from a changing Europe.

Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population”

Huub Schellekens, Professor of pharmaceutical biotechnology at Utrecht University: "We need 20 billion doses for the entire world population”