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Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg, M.D., foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine and member of the Commonwealth Fund’s board of directors, served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration during the Obama administration. The Commonwealth Fund spoke to her about the challenges of developing and testing a safe and effective vaccine to protect against the novel coronavirus, as well what it would take to ensure the vaccine could be manufactured in the enormous quantities needed and distributed to meet public health and medical needs.        
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: blogs