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Supply chain & logistics


Like never before, the pharmaceutical supply chain is a geopolitical arena, but when every surge of the virus and variation in vaccine yield raises the stakes, familiar political constructs seem ill- suited to stopping the pandemic. Tim Gunn assesses the global effort to achieve herd immunity.


War and IPs J


oe Biden’s administration came to power with a pledge to take Covid-19 seriously, and a promise to deliver 100 million vaccine doses in its first 100 days. In the end, it managed twice that. Still, in the President’s words, “the war is far from won”. The key rate-limiting factor there is rhetoric: pandemics are not wars – they’re not even elections – but over the past year, taking Covid-19 seriously has got tangled up in taking its most pervasive metaphors literally. Though, thankfully, Biden isn’t declaring victory, he has, like Trump before him, made extensive use of the Defense Production Act – a law passed to mobilise the US for the Korean War in 1950 (and thus targeted at the spread of communism, rather than coronavirus) – to prevent the export of raw materials for vaccine manufacturing. The US, and a select few other countries, are well on their way


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to herd immunity; much of the rest of the world fears it is being left behind. Logistically, this looks a bit like a reversal of what happened in the early months of 2020, when disruptions to PPE and API supplies that relied on China and India drove calls for European and North American countries, which quickly became the contagion’s epicentre, to shorten and reshore their supply chains. When it comes to vaccine manufacturing, however – and particularly for the more innovative vaccine platforms – many of the most important raw materials and critical input components actually come from the most economically developed nations.


Through March and April 2021, Adar Poonawalla – the CEO of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India, where the Oxford-


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