How much will be the cost for universal coverage of COVID-19 vaccination and how shall it be financed?

• 作者: Mohammad Meskarpour-Amiri Hossein Amini Ali Mehrabi Tavana
• 来源期刊: 亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（4）
• 所属期刊栏目: Perspective
• 页码范围: 157-158
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.4103/1995-7645.312517

摘要

Given the failure to find a definitive cure for COVID-19, the only hopes for controlling the pandemic right now are vaccine production and universal vaccination. Therefore, vaccine is vital to the prevention and control of COVID-19 outbreak and it will support global health security. So far, many efforts have been made to develop, manufacture, and stockpile the coronavirus vaccines that have given everyone hope[1-3]. The last attempts by the world's premier biopharmaceutical companies have given world the hope to end the pandemic, with the successful results of the Phase 3 clinical trial of their coronavirus vaccine[4,5]. However, making COVID-?19 vaccine is not the final step to end the pandemic. There will still be many questions including how much it will cost to carry out this extensive vaccination. Also, the price of COVID-19 vaccine, its pricing method, safety duration, effectiveness, and the number of booster doses have not yet been determined.