“We don’t want to be in a situation where we have [one] successful vaccine and we have a contamination event [during manufacturing] and suddenly we don’t have any vaccine supply. By doing things in parallel rather than in serial fashion, we hope to compress the overall timelines"
2/ This creates incredibly valuable optionality:
"CEPI invests in manufacturing facilities at the same time it puts money into staging clinical trials." pulitzercenter.org/reporting/reco…
"CEPI invests in manufacturing facilities at the same time it puts money into staging clinical trials." pulitzercenter.org/reporting/reco…
3/ “If you ‘have optionality,’ all you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur. The key is that your assessment doesn’t need to be made beforehand, only after the outcome.” NNT
