India’s Vaccine Billionaires Are Ready to Make a Billion Doses

India’s Vaccine Billionaires Are Ready to Make a Billion Doses

As chief executive officer of the Serum Institute of India, the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world, Adar Poonawalla can produce about 1.5 billion doses a year of almost any inoculation. He has machines that fill 500 glass vials every minute, and gleaming steel bioreactors almost two stories high that can make more than 10 million shots a month. He can claim, credibly, that he helps inoculate 65% of the world's children, in more than 100 countries, against diseases such as measles and tuberculosis. And deep inside Serum's lushly landscaped, 50-acre campus, about three hours inland from Mumbai, he's already brewing the raw materials to make one of the leading experimental vaccines for the novel coronavirus at a scale that could make a serious difference to ending the pandemic.But