Fast-Track Vaccines

Most African countries have joined the cooperative effort for global distribution of a future vaccine, but there are still financial and logistical questions.

Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director for the Immunization Action Coalition, lays out the logistical and financial issues facing a future COVID-19 vaccine distribution system.

Needing to store the vaccine at a temperature range outside the norm adds just one more layer of complexity to the logistical challenge.

Are there enough vials, syringes and packaging to get an approved vaccine where it needs to go?

Health care providers are going to play an essential role in communication and education.

Dr. Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, believes the right kind of COVID-19 vaccine must meet some minimum requirements, like ease of storage and use.

Epidemiologist and CEO of Pandefense Advisory Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox and polio, believes any vaccine program aimed at stopping COVID-19 must be distributed in every corner of the world.

The Gates Foundation is helping match vaccine developers with manufacturers to help distribute a COVID-19 vaccine equitably.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria says cooperation is the only way "to actually solve this problem."