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Germany Needs to Give Vaccine Production a Shot in the Arm
It only took pharmaceuticals producer BioNTech a few months to set up a new vaccine factory in Germany. Berlin should use the case as an example in efforts to boost production of the medicines urgently needed to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn: A carrot-and-stick approach is needed.
Foto: dpa
Hope is arising between an environmentalist center and the mausoleum of German Nobel Prize laureate Emil von Behring. It can be found in handful of factory halls and administrative buildings on the outskirts of the German city of Marburg. Some of them are more than 100 years old, from the time when the factory was used to manufacture the first medicines used to treat tetanus. Now, the German biotech firm BioNTech is converting the site for the production of its COVID-19 vaccine. Beginning in March, the plant is expected to produce around 70 million doses a