A look at the critical vaccine components in short supply, as a new global marketplace is launched to tackle bottlenecks.
Although Covid-19 vaccine production has been ramped up from zero to billions of doses in record time, a shortage of raw materials and equipment has limited the number of doses that can be made.- a sort-of pharmaceutical equivalent of eBay - to help manufacturers and suppliers see what is available and allow them to trade in one place.
They are a little like the bags used in the home-brewing process, says Matthew Downham, sustainable manufacturing lead for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations - a global body aiming to fast-track vaccine production and one of the lead organisations launching the marketplace. There have also been problems with a specialist ingredient called lipid nanoparticles - ultra-tiny particles that are crucial to the pioneering mRNA vaccines produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.
To help solve the problem, the pharmaceutical industry wants to see workers able to travel between international sites more easily.Whether intellectual property and patent protection are seen as blockers to the current global rollout very much depends on who you ask.
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