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Why Is Peter Hotez Afraid To Debate RFK, Jr.?
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Hotez is afraid to debate because he has no answer to anything RFK Jr. says.
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Dr. Hotez: Well, Todd, we need vaccines for global health. We have nine billion people in the low, and I'm sorry are three billion people that need nine billion doses, six to nine billion doses in the low and middle income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. And the question is where do those doses come from if we do not have sufficient amount of mRNA or adenovirus vectored vaccines? So we began working on coronavirus vaccines about a decade ago, and I say, we, our Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development is co-headed by myself and my science partner for the last 20 years, Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi.
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So if you really want to make a vaccine for global health, COVID-19, that's the technology to use. And now we've made it. We've licensed it and helping the co-development to four vaccine producers, Biological E in India, Biopharma in Indonesia and Septa in Bangladesh, and ImmunityBio, which is working to build capacity in South Africa and Botswana. BioE, which is one of India's big vaccine producers is the furthest along. They've got 250 million doses already made with plans to make 140 million doses a month till they get to a billion. And they could go on from there. And it was just released for emergency use authorization at the end of last year, December 28, 2021. So we're hitting the ground running now. So to start vaccinating India, now in discussions with WHO, the World Health Organization, for emergency use listing and then Indonesia and the others will follow. So pretty exciting to help make a difference in filling this global equity gap.
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So I think that was a failing of Operation Warp Speed and we're paying the price for it because Delta rose out of unvaccinated population in India at the beginning of 2021. Omicron out of an unvaccinated population out of Southern Africa, the end of last year. So mother nature's not being coy. She's telling us she's going to do. She's going to, as long as we fail to vaccinate the global south, meaning the low and middle income countries of the world, she's going to continue to throw terrible variants of concerns at us until we finally figure out how to vaccinate the world. Hopefully now ours can come in on that front.
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Well, as I've been saying to my colleagues, including the World Health Organization, there's another variant of concern brewing across the world's low and middle income countries right now. And we've got about six months to really scale up vaccinations for the world to forestall that are prevented from happening. And that has to be all hands on deck for that. The Biden administration announced that they're donating 400 million doses today, which is okay. But we're about to match that from our Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development. So there seems to be this lack of awareness of the scale required. When you're talking about a billion people in Africa, a billion in Latin America and the Caribbean, a billion in the smaller, low income Southeast Asia countries, three billion people to multiply that times two or three, six to nine billion doses, that's where we have to get to. And so 100 million there, 100 million there is not enough. You need vaccines like ours that you can, we actually produce at the level of the billions.
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I mean, we need to get everybody triply immunized if we're going to whether new variants because the double vaccination is not doing well versus Omicron in terms of only 57% protection versus hospitalization, 38% protection against ER visits if you get COVID. Much better if you get three doses, 90 and 82%. So making certain that your patients have three vaccine doses, making sure your patient's kids are vaccinated, or if you're a pediatrician, making sure your patients are vaccinated. If you're an obstetrician, making sure your patient who's pregnant is vaccinated. That's really going to be important as well. And remind people that if they've been infected and recovered, but not vaccinated, they're still very vulnerable to severe Omicron infection.
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/peter-hotez-md-phd-his-new-covid-vaccine
Dr. Hotez: Well, Todd, we need vaccines for global health. We have nine billion people in the low, and I'm sorry are three billion people that need nine billion doses, six to nine billion doses in the low and middle income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. And the question is where do those doses come from if we do not have sufficient amount of mRNA or adenovirus vectored vaccines? So we began working on coronavirus vaccines about a decade ago, and I say, we, our Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development is co-headed by myself and my science partner for the last 20 years, Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi.
.
.
So if you really want to make a vaccine for global health, COVID-19, that's the technology to use. And now we've made it. We've licensed it and helping the co-development to four vaccine producers, Biological E in India, Biopharma in Indonesia and Septa in Bangladesh, and ImmunityBio, which is working to build capacity in South Africa and Botswana. BioE, which is one of India's big vaccine producers is the furthest along. They've got 250 million doses already made with plans to make 140 million doses a month till they get to a billion. And they could go on from there. And it was just released for emergency use authorization at the end of last year, December 28, 2021. So we're hitting the ground running now. So to start vaccinating India, now in discussions with WHO, the World Health Organization, for emergency use listing and then Indonesia and the others will follow. So pretty exciting to help make a difference in filling this global equity gap.
.
.
So I think that was a failing of Operation Warp Speed and we're paying the price for it because Delta rose out of unvaccinated population in India at the beginning of 2021. Omicron out of an unvaccinated population out of Southern Africa, the end of last year. So mother nature's not being coy. She's telling us she's going to do. She's going to, as long as we fail to vaccinate the global south, meaning the low and middle income countries of the world, she's going to continue to throw terrible variants of concerns at us until we finally figure out how to vaccinate the world. Hopefully now ours can come in on that front.
.
.
Well, as I've been saying to my colleagues, including the World Health Organization, there's another variant of concern brewing across the world's low and middle income countries right now. And we've got about six months to really scale up vaccinations for the world to forestall that are prevented from happening. And that has to be all hands on deck for that. The Biden administration announced that they're donating 400 million doses today, which is okay. But we're about to match that from our Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development. So there seems to be this lack of awareness of the scale required. When you're talking about a billion people in Africa, a billion in Latin America and the Caribbean, a billion in the smaller, low income Southeast Asia countries, three billion people to multiply that times two or three, six to nine billion doses, that's where we have to get to. And so 100 million there, 100 million there is not enough. You need vaccines like ours that you can, we actually produce at the level of the billions.
.
.
I mean, we need to get everybody triply immunized if we're going to whether new variants because the double vaccination is not doing well versus Omicron in terms of only 57% protection versus hospitalization, 38% protection against ER visits if you get COVID. Much better if you get three doses, 90 and 82%. So making certain that your patients have three vaccine doses, making sure your patient's kids are vaccinated, or if you're a pediatrician, making sure your patients are vaccinated. If you're an obstetrician, making sure your patient who's pregnant is vaccinated. That's really going to be important as well. And remind people that if they've been infected and recovered, but not vaccinated, they're still very vulnerable to severe Omicron infection.
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/peter-hotez-md-phd-his-new-covid-vaccine
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