Center for Global Development: Monday Morning Vaccine Breakthrough: Terrific News for the West, but in LMICs Terms and Conditions Apply
Rachel Silverman, policy fellow with CGD, discusses Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s announcement that “their SARS-CoV2 vaccine candidate showed 90 percent efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in the interim analysis of their late stage clinical trial,” and highlights three challenges: distribution, cold-chain supply, and feasibility of future efficacy trials for other vaccine candidates (11/9).

Center for Global Development: Don’t Cheer Yet — There Is Too Much at Stake on COVID-19 Vaccines
Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy and senior fellow at CGD, urges caution over the vaccine trial results, highlights lessons from remdesivir trials, and discusses implications for LMICs (11/10).