Vaccines as Epidemic Insurance

This paper explores the relationship between the research for and development of vaccines against global pandemics and insurance. It shows that development in advance of pandemics of a portfolio of effective and government-approved vaccines does have some insurance properties: it requires incurring...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mark V. Pauly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/11/1304