For Next Pandemic, BARDA Proposes New Consortia For Rapid Response

 
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HHS agency would expand on DOD consortium approach that delivered the COVID-19 vaccines to bring together private sector teams that could quickly defend the US against future infectious outbreaks. Plan also calls for working with commercial lenders for the capital required to expand production of medical countermeasures.

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The organization in the Health and Human Services Department that develops medical countermeasures to pandemics and bioterror threats has taken lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to craft a new approach to future threats that borrows from a highly successful collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry that was undertaken by the military.

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s proposed Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle, or RRPV, marks a departure from a legacy...

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