What Is the World Doing to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines?
Summary
- Governments, multilateral organizations, and private firms have spent billions of dollars to achieve effective vaccines for the new coronavirus by 2021.
- More than half a dozen vaccines developed by Chinese, European, Russian, and U.S. researchers—including Pfizer and BioNTech’s and Moderna’s—are already being distributed to the public.
- Vaccines go through rigorous testing for safety and effectiveness before they are approved for public use, a process that typically takes years.
