Disagree. We should be honest. IT IS A ZERO-SUM GAME. Vaccine manufacturers are not able to meet demand. Production is already maxed out. If we hoard or have vaccines expire rather than share, that doesn't make it a non zero-sum game, it just makes us morally bankrupt.https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1438103141216575490 …
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I've no interest in defending patents *but* I believe this belief to be a misunderstanding and a leftover from the HIV fight. Scaling up/transferring vaccine production in a pandemic timescale needs much more than opening up the tech. We didn't do it.https://twitter.com/murchiston/status/1438122674874691591 …
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It's appealing to believe there is a non-zero sum solution to the global vaccine supply crisis—magical supply increase via waiving patents etc. There is not. Not blaming individuals. Not saying boosters wouldn't help (though clearly some more than others). But reality is reality.
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Hopefully, this (and/or others like it) is the answerhttps://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/covid-vaccine-corbevax-india/ …
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Biological E’s vaccine is currently in phase 3 clinical trials in India, and Datla expects it to be authorized by the Indian government by November and the WHO in January.
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I agree that the claims of “no tradeoff” between boosters and global vaccines are unsupported. Yet, the tradeoff isn’t inevitably 1:1. We’ve argued in
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No disagreement. I have argued for every one of those since last year, and got a huge amount of "Follow the Science" shouting at me—including from people who should know better—and very few people with the right PhDs spoke up and said exploring dose-sparing is urgent and right.
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What is the bottleneck? Can't be money.
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Yes! Speaking from Taiwan, the bottleneck is real! The question is, why won’t those in power do anything about it? Why aren’t we opening more manufacturing plants to up production?
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Making injectable drugs is a non-trivial industrial process. There just aren't factories that can be switched over to vaccine production at the drop of a hat to expand capacity.
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In Ukraine less than 20% of the population is vaccinated, still due to hesitancy 2m doses are expected to be overdue within 2month. Vaccinations are demand limited now even in the low-income countries. logistical constraints very limited %of the population affected by it
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