1/3: Even when US donates excess doses, it will still be a drop in the bucket: we need 4-5 billion vaccine doses for 1.1 billion people in SubSaharan Africa, 650 million in Latin America, 500 million low income Asian countries, there’s a better solution... washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/…
2/3: With Bio E in India, our low cost @TexasChildrens Baylor Vaccine is being scaled for 1.2 billion doses. We could work with US Govt to produce another 3 billion doses, this is a high expressing Pichia yeast recombprotein vaccine similar to hepatitis B vaccine used for decades
3/3: our CoV vaccine program was initially supported by NIAID NIH and for COVID19 through Kleberg, Tito’s, JPB Foundations. Expanding manufacturing, producing the 4-5 billion doses of a vaccine first developed here in Texas would = great vaccine diplomacy win for US Govt world
To quote Elie Wiesel: “man’s weakness is not in achieving victories but taking advantage of victories” our nation has achieved a victory in supporting the development of our vaccine, yet it seems to explore every option but this one
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