80 million doses is a "drop in the bucket," and the U.S. should pledge to manufacture and export 4-5-billion doses by the end of the year, Peter Hotez, professor of pediatrics and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor Coll Med, told CNN.
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Equally important, I also said that this should be done in an overarching frame work of coherent US foreign policy around vaccine diplomacy. We're not getting that out of Foggy Bottom (State Department).
Of course, I understand State Dept is up to its eyeballs this week in Middle East issues, but somehow we need to advance a foreign policy and approach to vaccinating the world with the following elements....
1) Stated scope of the problem, 4-5 billion doses by end of 2021, 2) who makes those doses, which types of vaccine? 3) who pays for manufacture, 4) distribution, 5) patents, 6) vaccine capacity building in LMICs, 7) regulatory science and governance, 8) work with WHO/Gavi/CEPI
I would like to see this articulated in a serious foreign policy speech, maybe by @SecBlinken, right now science diplomacy still underdeveloped at State Dept, but has the greatest potential

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2/10 it’s now a significant % of US population as much as 3-5% and increasing annually
3/10 includes those with 1) primary immunodeficiency, 2) leukemias lymphomas, 3) solid organ malignancies and chemotherapy, 4) bone marrow transplants, 5) solid organ transplants, 6) B cell mab Rx, 7) corticosteroids Rx, 8) CAR-T Rx, 9) splenectomy, 10) primary immunodeficiency
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Talk about great men: I’ve gotten to know @drsanjaygupta even pre-pandemic. Honest to god, there’s no one who has worked harder and tirelessly to get it right and speak to the American 🇺🇸 people, a true tzaddik
But there’s so much more: truly great ones: @DrLeanaWen who has put herself out there articulating the complexities of the pandemic, I’ve learned so much
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