As drugmakers race to build a coronavirus vaccine, they are already trying to build supply chains capable of delivering millions of doses around the world
By Elaine Chen Updated July 30, 2020 8:41 am ET Pharmaceutical companies that are racing to develop vaccines for the coronavirus are already working behind the scenes to build the supply chains needed to deliver their drugs to billions of people as rapidly as possible.
Vaccines likely would be sent to hospitals, pharmacies, and central vaccination points, in the same way that medical teams have set up in parking lots, schools and other sites to provide testing for the virus that has, by Johns Hopkins University’s latest count, infected over 16 million people world-wide and killed over 661,000.
Shoring up manufacturing, distribution channels Some of the companies involved are building this supply chain for the first time. “Just every day, [we are] trying to do things that we normally do in a year, do them in months. Things that normally take months, do them in days,” said Pamela Siwik, vice president of a division in global supply at Pfizer Inc., which is developing vaccine candidates with BioNTech.
J&J has struck deals with U.S. contract drug manufacturers Emergent BioSolutions Inc. and Catalent Inc. and plans to expand manufacturing in Europe and Asia. The company will make a drug at sites around the world simultaneously for the first time, Mr. Colarusso said. After drugmakers fill the vials, they will turn to logistics providers experienced in handling pharmaceuticals to ship them to distributors or directly to medical providers.
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