When will it end? Goldman economist gives late-stage vaccines a good shot at targeting 'large shares' of the US by mid-2021 — but the downside is daunting
It took decades for hepatitis B research to deliver a slate of late-stage candidates capable of reining the disease in.
With Covid-19, the same timeline has devoured all of 5 months. And the outcome will influence the lives of billions of people and a multitrillion-dollar world economy.
Count the economists at Goldman Sachs as optimistic that at least one of these leading vaccines will stay on this furiously accelerated pace and get over the regulatory goal line before the end of this year, with a shot at several more near-term OKs. That in turn should lead to the production of billions of doses of vaccines that can create herd immunity in the US by the middle of next year, with Europe following a few months later.
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