Australia is looking to make its own mRNA COVID vaccines, but the process is costly and complex.
The end-to-end process of making a vaccine requires large facilities and numerous imports.
The major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, enable these vaccines to go to market with their large-scaled manufacturing and clinical trial coordination.
Currently, Australia has no such facilities to produce the numbers needed.
The push to make vaccines here is also political, as not only would it rule out international negotiations and even fund future biotechnological studies, but it would help Australians to forget out the ongoing slow vaccine roll out and confusion.