The coronavirus crisis should be a wake-up call for the international community to stop the "boom and bust" cycle of vaccine research and public health preparation, the head of the global vaccine alliance has said.
But on Friday the World Health Organization said it had only received pledges of $3.4 billion of an estimated $30 billion needed to speed up the development and production of COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments. "We are in a situation now where different governments are out trying to buy one vaccine or another.
- There have been issues in the past, including for coronaviruses SARS and MERS, where funding for vaccine research dried up when the disease dissipated. What are your concerns around this? - "That is a real challenge, given that you don't have perfect systems for follow up in some of the more fragile and difficult countries.
"The intentional spread of false information is not only at an all time high, but it also is being amplified by social media tools that didn't exist 20 years ago and so we have an almost perfect storm of problems."Traditionally, developing countries are quite confident to take vaccines because they see the diseases, they know how bad they can be. "This is a global problem that needs a global solution and we have to all work together.
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