Turning Vaccine Priority Upside Down: Applying H1N1 Lessons To COVID-19
Executive Summary
A successful COVID-19 vaccine candidate will create a critical challenge: who receives the first doses of what is bound to be a constrained supply? Vaccine developers see useful lessons from the 2009 H1N1 outbreak – but a very different priority order.
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