On May 11, 2020, in a perspective published by the journal Science, Dr. Larry Corey from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and coauthors Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. John Mascola, and Dr. Francis Collins, shared their plan for bringing together industry, government and academia to meet this urgent need.

Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, part of NIH. Dr. Mascola is the director of the NIAID Vaccine Research Center, and Dr. Collins is the NIH director.

The authors called for harmonizing each step of the process, from creating a common oversight body and shared set of criteria to evaluate the vaccine studies underway, to transparency and data sharing, to marshalling the full resources of private, public and philanthropic sectors to scale up eventual manufacturing capacity and distribution chains for COVID-19 vaccines.