Just one Covid-19 vaccine isn’t enough, says Fauci

Bloomberg

The world needs more than one vaccine to tackle the new coronavirus, even as pharma companies race to be the
first with a pandemic shot, said US infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci.
“I’d love to see more than one vaccine get to the goal line, as it were,” Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a BBC radio interview on Thursday. “The world needs more than one vaccine.”
Drugmakers such as Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc, Moderna Inc and dozens of other biopharmaceutical outfits and academic groups are vying to come up with a safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19. With almost 10.5 million confirmed cases around the globe and over half a million deaths, drugmakers are under increasing pressure to deliver.
Having multiple vaccines will be necessary not just to produce the billions of doses needed to meet demand across the globe.