Dann entschied Adar Poonawalla, der 40-jährige Vorsitzende des privaten Serum Institute of India (SII), den Oxford-AstraZeneca-Impfstoff herzustellen – bevor er überhaupt zugelassen war, was einer Wette in Milliardenhöhe gleichkam.
Later, even before the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, Adar Poonawalla, the 40-year-old head of the privately-owned Serum Institute of India, audaciously decided to manufacture it – a billion-dollar gamble.