Reuters: Coronavirus research to get $500 million boost at Paris meeting
“States and private charities will commit to more than $500 million to boost research into the novel coronavirus at the Paris Peace Forum, organizers of the event said on Thursday. The forum, an annual meeting of heads of state and government with civil society organizations and charitable foundations, said the funds would come from those participating in the ACT-Accelerator initiative, a program designed to ensure global access to COVID-19 tests, therapeutics, and vaccines…” (De Clercq, 11/12).