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The lockdowns of 2020 and beyond led to economic disruption on a scale not seen outside of wartime, and the imperative to reduce some of this damage led to the fastest vaccines ever produced. But now the world has discovered what’s possible with governments, industries and suppliers all working towards the same goal – will vaccine production change forever? Monica Karpinski asks Kevin Sample, senior consultant at GHX, and Carlos Cordon, professor of strategy and supply chain management at IMD business school.
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efore the coronavirus pandemic, the vaccine supply chain was running just fine. It was known, more or less, how many people would be taking them each year, and the system in place to provide them would do so without putting too much pressure on any one element of the chain. When Covid-19 struck, all of that went out of the window. Vaccines were now needed in unprecedented supply and as quickly as possible in countries all over the world.
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The usual processes for creating a vaccine can take up to 15 years from development to distribution – but the world didn’t have that sort of time. It took
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a Herculean collaboration of many moving parts to pull it off, but under the revised system the first vaccines were available in under a year. At the beginning of March 2021, 413 million doses had been produced, but capacity had to increase dramatically, with analytics company Airfinity data predicting an increase in output to 9.5 billion by the end of the year. According to Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered worldwide is 8.47 billion. To drive home just how significant this rise in production is, before the pandemic the annual worldwide production of all vaccines combined was five billion doses.
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