May.04 — Takeda President of Global Business Rajeev Venkayya discusses efforts among companies and nations to develop a coronavirus vaccine and the importance of making the vaccine available to the entire world. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Close.”
In This Story: Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.