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Business Weekly: What Covid-19 vaccines can do for Big Pharma

What Covid-19 vaccines can do for Big Pharma

12/12/2020 GMT

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Can covid vaccines restore the battered reputations of the big pharmaceutical companies?

On this edition of Business Weekly, we ask whether Covid vaccines are the shot in the arm the pharmaceutical industry needs to rescue its reputation. Plus, as the world looks ahead to life after the pandemic, will our transportation systems be there to help us get around? There’s a financial crisis at New York’s mass transit system. What does that mean for the city it supports? Airbnb finally packs it bags and heads to the stock market. The holiday accommodation company’s shares boomed on their first day of trading this week. We speak to Airbnb’s chief executive, Brian Chesky. Also, in China, over 15m tonnes of food is wasted every year. The government has a new plan to tackle this, but how will it convince its citizens not to throw food away? And we’ll be talking about that nine figure deal reached by Bob Dylan to sell off his back catalogue. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.

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