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As vaccine nationalism deepens, governments pay to bring production home

Unlike the United States, where the government’s Operation Warp Speed began funding the expansion and retrofit of pharmaceutical manufacturing sites early in the pandemic, few countries globally have the option to commandeer factories.As vaccine nationalism deepens, governments pay to bring production home
File Photo: A worker of German vaccine maker IDT Biologika shows a sample ampoule during the visit of German Health Minister Jens Spahn in Dessau Rosslau, Germany, November 23, 2020.  Hendrik Schmidt/Pool via Reuters
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Published at : March 12, 2021
Updated at : March 12, 2021 18:54
Dessau, Germany

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