against the coronavirus, how critical it was in the development of the vaccines ?
But I think the myths around the vaccines were very challenging.
And then the vaccines , as I mentioned, potentially having-- if you had availability, having saved so many lives, and then having that hit so close to home,
So to use the vaccines example again, it would be like you're deciding whether to vaccinate your child and somebody says to you-- and you say, well, how significant
Then once the vaccines were created, the government created this sort of glide path that allowed them to go from being in a lab
Then once the vaccines were created, the government created this sort of glide path that allowed them to go from being in a lab
Instead of storing the vaccines in her clinic the healthcare worker travels one hour each way on the bus to get fresh vaccines and transport them for the day in a cooler.
One of the most impressive private public partnerships working toward that goal is being spearheaded by Gavi: the Vaccines Alliance.
of them and the vaccines would never be available to the poor well for many years I've argued that the the biggest most important
It's common knowledge now that the vaccines that were prepared for COVID were done in record time, nine months.
And so I think to have seen the vaccines then be portrayed as these devices that may carry tracking chips and things like that
even after a year of the vaccines , or 10 months of the vaccines being out.
So we developed this initiative and applied the vaccines in a pilot program in the schools because we know a high proportion of the girls
So I recall reading a symposium in the New York Times: April of 2020, they asked a group of experts, "When are we gonna get the vaccines ?"
So I recall reading a symposium in the New York Times: April of 2020, they asked a group of experts, "When are we gonna get the vaccines ?"
They took mercury out of the vaccines and the rates of autism didn't change.
changes going on and that means that the vaccines have to be changed as well and
and allow people to begin to build the vaccines against this to build um better flu vaccines I mean we're still making them in eggs come out of chickens and
Take the vaccines to the people, free beers,
And a vaccine would work if we had one for HIV the way almost all the vaccines you've had in your life work.
But even if all of us were to have all the vaccines that are prescribed and exercise all of the preventions, cancer would still be with us.
Because in this argument about vaccines people actually forgot what the vaccines are for, what are they protecting us from.
Well, I think some of the myths around the vaccines have been particularly frustrating, in part because I think the vaccines ,
So unless you start getting one and two years data of all the vaccines , you will really not know how each vaccine is working.
And very complex ideas, like those embedded in the vaccines , cures for cancer, medicines going around the world.
So on masks, on gathering, even after the vaccines , on boosters.
And even though you may have many parts of the world that are well protected with immunity from the vaccines ,
And you were running into situations now where you were trying to incentivize people to take the vaccines in the United States
Then some people are saying, if you mix and match the vaccines , that's also a very good way of protecting yourself even further.
Because, remember, the vaccines have only been out in the market since early this year, technically.
We made it easier, for example, for the vaccines to be transported in special glass vials that were built by Corning.
And then finally, and very importantly, having bought all the vaccines , the federal government could have charged Americans whatever they wanted and they charged Americans the price
We made it easier, for example, for the vaccines to be transported in special glass vials that were built by Corning.
Coronavirus has taught us that competition is not going to get us to a place where we have the vaccines and tests and systems that we need so that we can beat this one enemy
vaccines and uh you can go on and on but I think it's probably because the vaccines have had such a Major Impact in improving Public Health throughout the
And I'll tell you, it was just a couple of months ago, so well into the release of the vaccines .
And then finally, and very importantly, we, you know, having bought all the vaccines , the federal government could have charged Americans whatever they wanted,
and saying, make this hair follicle, or make this fingernail, or this hormone, or this enzyme, or this neuron, or, in the case of the vaccines