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The quest for the coronavirus vaccine with Seth Berkley

The TED Interview

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Ibola Vaccine

The world has known about ibola for a long time, th the it was sequenced and so forth. A vaccine could have been developed and got ready for a possible outbreak. Why didn't that happen? Well, i mean, there had been 26 outbreaks before but each one of them was small,. in the poorest african countries in the world. There was no market for it. It's during that priod we put vaccine away and had it available in case there were other outbreaks. And then this d r c i, north kivo outbreak, which really was terrible because it was in a war zone. That is now, i believe, day 38 or 39 out of the forty

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