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⏳Coronavirus Vaccine Front-Runners Emerge, Rollouts Weighed
新冠疫苗領航員浮現，藥廠與政府如何規劃生產分配？

-front-runner 領先者、領跑者
-emerge 出現、浮出水面，同 come out
-roll out 當動詞時有「開展、啟動、推出」的意思，此處作為名詞 rollout，指「生產分配（計畫）」

💉 Governments and drugmakers are weighing how to roll out coronavirus vaccines, including reserving the first batches for health-care workers, as several shots race to early leads.
在新冠疫苗競賽湧現出若干潛在領航員之際，一些政府部門和製藥商正謀劃如何推出新冠疫苗，包括為醫護人員預留第一批疫苗。

-weigh 字面意思為「秤重」，衍生為「謀劃、權衡、斟酌」的意思
✍️常見用法：weigh in on sth 提出對（某事）的看法
-batch 一批
-leads 領先者、領跑者
✍️常見用法： in the lead 指「處於領先地位」；在商業語境中 lead 還有「機遇、機會、潛在客戶」的意思

🧪 A safe and effective vaccine is the best way to prevent Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, and to curb its transmission, public-health officials say. Drugmakers say they are developing potential coronavirus vaccines at remarkably fast speeds.
Yet there isn’t a guarantee that any of the most advanced vaccine candidates will prove to work safely on such a short timetable. Some, like vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, are based on relatively new technologies that haven’t been approved previously.
公共衛生官員稱，安全有效的疫苗是預防新冠肺炎以及遏制新冠疫情擴散的最佳手段。新冠肺炎是新冠病毒引起的呼吸道疾病。製藥商表示正以驚人速度開發疫苗。然而，在這麼短的周期內，任何一種最先進的候選疫苗都不能保證可以證明是安全的。與輝瑞（Pfizer）和Moderna的疫苗相同，有些疫苗是採用之前未被批準的、相對比較新的技術所研發而成。

-curb 遏制、抑制，同 limit, restrict
✍️常見用法: put a curb on sth 限制、約束某事
-guarantee 保證、擔保
-timetable 計畫週期、時間表

🎖Several drugmakers that have been building up their capabilities to make coronavirus vaccines, have promised to make hundreds of millions of doses this year. Yet a fuller supply to vaccinate the general population might not become available until well into 2021, according to company projections and estimates by vaccine experts. Public-health officials and vaccine experts hope more than one vaccine will cross the finish line, to boost the total number of doses available.
幾家已經在提升新冠疫苗生產能力的製藥企業承諾，今年生產的疫苗劑量將以百萬支來計算。但根據藥廠和疫苗專家的估測，可能要到2021年才能為一般民眾提供更充足的疫苗供應。公共衛生部門的官員和疫苗專家希望，可以同時有多種疫苗獲得批准，這樣就能增加可使用的疫苗總劑量。
-build up 提升、構築
-capacity 生產能力
-full supply 充分供給
-cross the finish line 字面意思是「通過終點線」，在此表示「（疫苗）獲得批准」

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Johnson & Johnson expects to have some batches of its vaccine ready ___ early 2021, which Chief Scientific Officer Paul Stoffels said should be _______ to vaccinate health-care workers globally. The company expects to eventually make more than a billion doses.
嬌生公司預計在2021年初之前可望生產數批疫苗。該公司首席科學總監史多福（Paul Stoffels）表示，這些疫苗應該足夠全球醫護工作者接種。該公司預計最終將生產超過10億支疫苗。
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