— Michael LewisThe next day, Richard wrote to Carter with a question. As the head of CEPI, Richard had the power to direct hundreds of millions of dollars to companies with new ideas about how to make vaccines more quickly than they had ever been made. It was interesting to note, and Richard noted it, that the free market had no interest in funding these companies in their early stages.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis.