An international coalition set up to prepare for future infectious disease threats set out what it called its “moonshot” plan to ensure new vaccines against emerging disease epidemics are developed within 100 days.
Launching a $3.5 billion five-year strategy to tackle future pandemic risks, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said more needs to be done urgently to mitigate the threat posed by new Covid-19 variants, and to prepare for new infectious diseases.
Compressing vaccine development timelines to 100 days would make them around a third as long as it took the world to develop the first Covid-19 vaccines, CEPI said in a statement.
