U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson aims to begin clinical testing of its COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks and produce billions of doses in 2021, chief executive officer Alex Gorsky said on Wednesday, but cautioned that it will take more than one vaccine to rein in the virus.
Gorsky said it was a good thing other companies are experimenting with different approaches to vaccines, in part because different vaccines might work better in different groups of people.
He also stressed the importance of developing drugs that treat patients who have already contracted the virus. “The world has never attempted something quite that large, quite that complex,” Gorsky said. “That’s why I think a vaccine, while a very critical element to bringing an end to this pandemic, is part of the puzzle.”
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