Progressives push for affordable coronavirus vaccine

Drug makers have laid out a fairly rapid timeline for a coronavirus vaccine: one to two years. But a cadre of progressive Democrats fear that some companies may try and justify the breakneck speed with a higher price tag. They're now pressuring the Trump administration to levy cost controls on potential vaccines for the rapid-moving pathogen. 

Progressives held a press conference yesterday, STAT’s Nicholas Florko writes, and in doing so highlighted a bill that would create an independent committee to set prices for all drugs created using federal research. 

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