Reminds me of an aerial photograph of Flanders, circa mid 1917.
Not a bad metaphor, actually.
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Dr. Fauci is the archetype of a professional with great discretion. I hope there is a position for him in the Biden Administration.
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There are currently 9 vaccines for COVID-19 that have reached Phase 3 trials, the final phase of testing before they can be released for limited use and then broader release. Of these vaccines, only one is being produced by an American company — Moderna, which launched Phase 3 trials in late June, has received billions in funding from the NIH to accelerate its research. Four of the other vaccines are being tested by private and state-owned companies in China, one is the product of an Australian company, one is British, one German, and one Russian.
There is reason to believe the vaccines being developed in China may have a better shot at being the first to reach full approval for widespread use. Michael Kinch, director of the Centers for Research Innovation in Biotechnology and Drug Discovery at Washington University in St. Louis, has said China “has a more balanced portfolio” of potential vaccines — meaning their vaccines use a broader array of mechanisms to induce immunity to the virus relative to the American projects’ more narrowly focused approach. He argued the U.S. essentially putting all our eggs in one basket.
China has seen success in developing novel vaccines in recent years, according to a 2018 study of the country’s vaccine landscape. The authors noted that China “has a large domestic manufacturing base capable of producing [a] large quantity of vaccines at low prices,” including an oral rotavirus vaccine and both live-attenuated and inactivated Hepatitis A vaccines.
Should China or any other country beat America to the finish line in vaccine development, membership in the WHO would likely put us on the fast-track to sharing in those benefits. The WHO has urged its member states to share any vaccines when they’re developed “as a public good,” which is undeniably the right approach — in our interconnected global society, no country can fully eradicate the pandemic while others still battle it. In keeping with that philosophy, the WHO recently launched the “Covax” initiative for cooperative vaccine development, production, and distribution, which the Trump administration promptly declined to join.
In light of these developments, Biden’s and Trump’s respective attitudes will clearly have serious impacts on the health and safety of all Americans. Refusing global cooperation poses a real danger to our citizens. And even beyond the domestic impacts, the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the WHO is sure to have devastating global impacts when it goes into full effect.
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Where do you think Drumpf saw him?
Cart before horse?
Let us tell it like it is, Scott Atlas is a snake-oil salesman and a con artist who has found his way into the so-called Trump “elite.” His comments should be completely ignored, if not whleheartedly rebuked.
He is out and lying.
He’s also been working on a vaccine and he’d like to continue doing that and I’d like it too. If you want to blame him at all for a situation created mostly by one person not named Fauci you’ve got your work cut out for you.
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I trust Dr. Fauci.
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