Inside Drug Pricing - 05/18/2020

WHO Meeting Highlights Tension Between Global Vaccine Development, U.S. Isolation

By John Wilkerson, Ariel Cohen / May 18, 2020 at 3:59 PM
This week’s World Health Organization annual meeting could highlight tensions between global development efforts of a COVID-19 vaccine and the Trump administration’s U.S.-first, go-it-alone approach. The meeting also will offer insights into the approaches world leaders are taking to fight the pandemic: China is trying to gain more influence over the WHO, while the United States isolates itself and tries to develop a vaccine before the rest of the world. It’s not clear how the outcome of that race will...


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