"After finding out half a million tests were far from enough, we had to work out how to produce five million"

Jakob Gudbrand leads US lab giant Thermo Fisher Scientific's efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thermo Fisher President for Pharma & Biotech Scientific Jakob Gudbrand. | Photo: GN Store Nord / PR
Thermo Fisher President for Pharma & Biotech Scientific Jakob Gudbrand. | Photo: GN Store Nord / PR
BY ALBERT RØNNING-ANDERSSON, TRANSLATED BY NIELSINE NIELSEN

When Covid-19 entered the stage in the late spring of 2020, it changed everything that Jakob Gudbrand had imagined for the days to come.

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