Forbes January 13, 2021
Moncef Slaoui, the outgoing head of the federal Covid-19 vaccine program, warned Wednesday to remain vigilant about Covid-19 far into the future. “I’m optimistic we will get this virus under control,” the Operation Warp Speed director said on a panel at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. “But we cannot forget. We forgot with Ebola. We forgot with Zika.” While the general public may still be holding out hope that this will all just go away, the pharmaceutical industry is preparing for the Covid-19 line of business to be recurring and long-lasting.
“Our thesis as a company is Sars-CoV-2 is not going away, we are going to deal with this virus we think forever,” said Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel....