In a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country, the U.S. government has begun plan to stockpile hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines that are under development.
While disclosing this on Friday May 15, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar, stated that the plan was aimed at having one or more vaccines ready to deploy by the end of the year.
“We’ve got over 100 vaccine candidates that have been discovered,” Azar said.
“What we’re doing now is we’re narrowing down those that we’re going to place huge multi-hundred million dollar bets on and scale massive vaccine domestic production so that we, by the end of the year, we hope, would have one or more safe and effective vaccines and hundreds of millions of doses,” he added.
