Market For COVID-19 Therapeutics Will Exceed Government Demand, US Believes

HHS Secretary Azar says $1bn of the $2.5bn emergency supplemental funding request is for vaccine development.

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The vaccines and therapeutics developed to fight the COVID-19 outbreak are expected to find a broader market in the current crisis, unlike typical countermeasures.

The US federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) often is the only entity funding development and procurement of countermeasures for the strategic national stockpile,

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