[MagnumOpus]

The cost to manufacture is cheap as chips - governments pay $3-$10 per shot when they buy millions. Transporting and administering increases the price but not significantly.

Of course a country that could pay $1bn half a year ago in advance on the chance that the vaccine works will be ahead in the production queue in front of a poor country that only now puts in orders.

[bluGill]

Bill Gates was there looking for answers as well. And he has been working with some companies for long enough to get ahead of the line just because he was there before this need.