BIO 2020 Notebook: FDA's Hahn On COVID-19 Lessons To Be Learned; NIH's Fauci On Health Care Disparities; Pfizer's Young On Forgoing Gov't Vaccine Funds
Executive Summary
News and views from day three of BIO Digital. US FDA Commissioner Hahn asks industry to help identify best regulatory lessons from the pandemic; Pfizer’s chief business officer explains how need to move quickly in vaccine partnership with BioNTech led to decision to forgo US funding.
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