S1E54: Understanding Singapore’s portfolio approach to vaccine procurement: Health Check Ep 54

The Straits Times Podcasts · Feb 10, 2021 · 9m

Health Check Ep 54: Understanding Singapore’s portfolio approach to vaccine procurement

9:42 mins

Synopsis: This is a fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays by The Straits Times that aims to help you make sense of health matters that affect you.

This episode looks at how Singapore zeroed in on its choice of Covid-19 vaccines - from those by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that are based on a relatively new mRNA technology, to Sinovac’s inactivated vaccine, which uses a technology that has been around for decades. It also touches on the speed of vaccine development.

ST senior health…