When governments need to move fast to respond to crises and urgently develop scalable solutions, they turn to industry. In the past months, we have seen a herculean effort undertaken by the pharmaceutical industry. Working with research institutions, they have come forward with Covid-19 candidate vaccines in what has been record time.
It was not political institutions or international organisations that were equipped to do this. It was the power of industry that undertook the urgent research and development needed to produce large-scale solutions for a massive global challenge.
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