
BioNTech 'turning every stone' to scale up vaccine production, co-founder tells CNN
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The makers of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are "turning every stone" to scale up production capacity as Europe continues to suffer from a deficit in vaccine supply.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, BioNTech co-founder and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci said the company is "continuously reevaluating how the target we have already set could be even overperformed." Despite certain limitations such as the fact that they "cannot train people very fast" the company is focusing on finding partners "who can complement pieces of this pretty large network" of vaccine supply.
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