Aug.05 — While pharmaceutical firms are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, several of them have been snapping up deals with governments to be the first in line to get the drug once it comes out. Bloomberg’s Michelle Cortez reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”
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.