![]() I think the scientists are still sharing information and communicating at an international level, so I don’t think that’s been too affected. pulling out of the World Health Organization and how vaccines have become nationalized It’s just a matter of recognizing we have to get everybody through to the other side. It’s not worth that short-term event, getting family together, in order to put them at risk and put yourselves at risk. Any airport right now, any bus terminal, any train station has lots of COVID-infected people in those venues. ![]() Remember, this is a true gesture of love - telling people not to come - because right now … COVID-19 accelerating across the United States at this screaming high level of approaching 200,000 confirmed cases per day, which really means about probably at least half a million new cases a day. On his advice for the holidays: telling loved ones that visiting isn’t safe this year Hotez’s forthcoming book is Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science. “It’s especially tragic if one of your loved one loses their life or has permanent, long-lasting injury during this period because it’s just a matter of staying disciplined for the next couple of months and getting them to the other side.” “Don’t be lax with it now, especially with the holidays,” he says. We’ve never made a billion of anything before - so that’s pretty exciting also.”ĭespite this good news, Hotez urges people to continue physical distancing and wearing masks. “It’s very exciting for us to make a contribution. “We signed an agreement with Biological E., based in India, in Hyderabad, and they are now scaling this up to 1.2 billion doses, testing it across India,” Hotez says. Now, with COVID-19, they’re working on developing a vaccine that he hopes could be produced locally, so low- and middle-income countries aren’t reliant on the U.S. Get what vaccine you can.”įor two decades Hotez’s team has worked to develop low-cost global health vaccines. “One of the questions that I’m asked all the time is, ‘Hey, doc, which vaccine are you waiting for?’ And the answer is … I’m going to take any of those vaccines that’s made available to me that’s authorized by the U.S. Hotez says that at present, all the vaccines in development work similarly, by inducing an immune response to the spike protein caused by the virus. “By the early part of next year, we’re going to move pretty quickly, I think, in vaccinating a significant percentage of the population,” Hotez says. Peter Hotez, the co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, says that a vaccine release could begin for selected populations by the middle of December - and that a broader vaccination effort could soon follow. Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Moderna and, more recently, AstraZeneca have all announced that their vaccines have shown better-than-expected results.ĭr. and around the world, there’s promising news on the vaccine front. As COVID-19 cases continue to surge both in the U.S.
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