If all else fails, we resort to directly appealing to POTUS with a “your legacy” argument. Azar got a national “ending AIDS” program out of it (with Fauci pushing the design). It now gets bipartisan annual funding.
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Replying to @peterstaley @apoorva_nyc and
Biden/Trudeau/Merkel/etc.: "We're acquiring another million-billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine for our citizens." Press: "...but your legacy!" Heck, it couldn't hurt. Count me in!
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Replying to @MoNscience @peterstaley and
Agree, in fact, working on something like that to whatever degree words have weight right now, but I can see a drop in interest in anything abroad as vaccination makes progress here. The variant situation makes it urgent, imo, because of what's happening "there" *right now.*
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Replying to @zeynep @MoNscience and
So, came across this
@RANDEurope report on the economic costs of vaccine nationalism. The findings? 1/https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA769-1.html …1 reply 5 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @gregggonsalves @zeynep and
1. Vaccine nationalism could cost the global economy up to $1.2 trillion a year in GDP. 2. As long as there is no vaccine against the disease, the global cost associated with COVID-19 and its economic impact could be $3.4 trillion a year. 2/
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Replying to @gregggonsalves @zeynep and
3. If the poorest countries cannot access vaccines, the world could still lose between $60 billion and $340 billion a year in GDP. 4. For every $1 spent on supplying poorer countries with vaccines, high-income countries would get back about $4.80. end/
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Replying to @gregggonsalves @MoNscience and
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Wrote up the case for at least releasing AZ ones, starting to plan for letting go of Novavax (that will also never be approved on time) and added "legacy" (sound familiar
@peterstaley?)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1372164756648423431 …zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepTens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccines that won't be approved here soon enough are languishing in US depots. Our supply already exceeds the number of Americans. Less than 1% of Africa has been vaccinated. President Biden: Let our surplus vaccines go—now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine.html … pic.twitter.com/XSOCKKVjKkShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes -
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Replying to @MoNscience @zeynep and
One could argue that Bush Jr’s only positive legacy was/is PEPFAR. (One of the reasons we’re pitching PEPVAR to Biden)
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