Covid-19 roundup: Vaccine by end of 2020? Ken Frazier warns hype doing 'grave disservice'
When it comes to setting expectations about a Covid-19 vaccine, Ken Frazier does not mince words.
Over a month after first casting doubts on the aggressive 12- to 18-month timeframe championed by the US government and his biopharma peers, the Merck CEO again cautioned against any hype around a quick vaccine approval.
In a wide-ranging interview with Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley that touched other big topics such as race, Frazier emphasized that vaccines take a long time to develop. He would know: Out of the seven new vaccines introduced around the world in the past 25 years, four came from Merck.
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