EU Seeking Firms To Offer ‘Ever-Warm’ Production Capacity For Future Pandemics
Executive Summary
The EU is drawing on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to set up a network of vaccine production capacities able to respond quickly to a surge in demand.
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