Covid-19 roundup: Fau­ci says multi­bil­lion-dol­lar pro­gram could curb fu­ture pan­demics; Japan­ese drug­mak­er spices up coro­n­avirus pill race

When the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic swept in, drug­mak­ers were able to spin years worth of re­search in­to the fastest turn­around time for vac­cine de­vel­op­ment the world has ever seen. In an­tic­i­pa­tion of the next po­ten­tial glob­al health threat, NI­AID di­rec­tor An­tho­ny Fau­ci has been pro­mot­ing a multi­bil­lion-dol­lar plan that could cre­ate “pro­to­type vac­cines” in prepa­ra­tion of what comes next.

And if the US can find fund­ing, Fau­ci thinks that the re­search can start as ear­ly as next year.

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