This may be the right direction, in fact our recombinant protein vaccine might be a great booster. Problem is this: Zero experimental evidence. While it’s something I’ve suggested in lab meetings, zoom calls, without actual data in hand it’s a non-starter nytimes.com/2021/01/01/hea…
Op Warp Speed delivered vaccines, but they went heavy in the direction of new technologies oblivious to a reality that we don’t have a health system in place to deliver them high throughput. We’re opening 40 million IKEA boxes, just now reading the “assembly required”stickers
It’s why we pushed for our low cost, easy to deliver recombinant protein vaccines now being scaled for production and tested across India 🇮🇳 , a 40 year old well tested technology, safe for use in kids.
In the meantime, by not launching a national COVID19 control strategy, our backs are against the wall. We have no choice but to vaccinate ourselves out of this mess. The numbers are daunting: I estimate 240 million people must be immunized by September, one million people per day
Relying on pharmacy chains and supermarkets won’t deliver on the scale required. And certainly not in pharmacy deserts 🌵 in low-income areas. We need to call an audible that focuses on large stadiums well staffed with medical personnel and approve vaccines that go beyond mRNA
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