Coronavirus deaths in Italy overtake China as economic damage mounts“We’re confident technology will arrest this disease,” said IFPMA President David Ricks, the chairman of Eli Lilly and Company. But industry chiefs said they could not lower the testing standards to get a preventative vaccine on the market more quickly. Equal accessVenkayya said the industry would “prioritise access and equity in the distribution” of any effective vaccine. Stoffels said the problem in reaching solutions was that the virus had new characteristics compared to outbreaks such as SARS. IFPMA director-general Thomas Cueni said the industry was putting on an unprecedented united front to conquer the virus.

Source: The Express Tribune March 20, 2020 07:30 UTC