COVID-19 is not the first coronavirus outbreak we’ve experienced. There was SARS in 2003, and MERS in 2012. If coronaviruses have been around for years, why don’t we have a vaccine already? The answer partially has to do with economics. Turns out that the market for emergency vaccines is… weird… so weird that it involves top-secret chicken flocks, the creation of a new government agency, and an annual stockpile of upwards of 900,000 chicken eggs. This is the story of what it takes to produce a national vaccine supply. LISTEN TO the original 'Planet Money' podcast episode here: https://n.pr/2Z8Hb3Y SUBSCRIBE TO 'PLANET MONEY SHORTS': http://bit.ly/2o5dHjo SUBSCRIBE TO 'PLANET MONEY': http://n.pr/2Eq8WMl WATCH MORE NPR VIDEOS: null ------------------------------------------------------ Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at https://plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Follow NPR elsewhere, too: • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npr/ • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@npr • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NPR