Buy now, save later: financing vaccine candidates
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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As clinical trials progress, policymakers must determine how heavily to fund the pre-emptive manufacture of candidate vaccines, and how to distribute the successful ones. Given Britain’s bungled pandemic response, the separatist mood in Scotland has surged to record levels. And travel tips from the vloggers of illegal migration.
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| 1:13.6 | In Scotland, some voters reckon that the government in London |
| 1:16.6 | has mishandled the pandemic even worse than its mishandled Brexit. |
| 1:20.6 | Now the fraction wanting independence from the rest of the United Kingdom |
| 1:23.6 | is at an all-time high. |
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