Different BallgameThe drug industry has been transporting vaccines for many years without much fanfare, so the expertise exists.
But the magnitude and complexity of this effort will require much more coordination between private industry, customs officials, governments and non-governmental organizations.“Before Covid-19, it was 100% scalable: We knew how many flus there were in the world, we know how many cases of meningitis there were," said Frank Van Gelder, secretary-general of Pharma.Aero. “But suddenly you have a pandemic, which captures the entire global population and then you start to play a different ballgame."Such a large airlift would be difficult in normal times.