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I mean, it's not like allowing some company to get the secret sauce to get the formulas and will not enable them to ramp up a production facility overnight. We need immediate production and distribution of these vaccines, including people that will administer the shots and storage capability in the remote undeveloped countries of the world. Waiving the intellectual property protections and allowing new companies to try to stand up production facilities, I mean, that could take four to five years. Is that maybe off the mark a little? Do they actually have the potential to build out these in time, with Pfizer saying that theirs could be operational by early next year? And Moderna has announced that they're going to create an African hub. And I know that that's something that experts who I've talked to have said that the US backing of the trips waiver, for example, is really more symbolic than anything else, considering the fact that Pfizer, for example, has already partnered with a company in South Africa. And we should be offering our personnel, whether it's relief workers or military personnel, and not just American, but from all around the world, including UN forces, to help administer and deliver the shots.ĪNJALEE KHEMLANI: You recently penned an op-ed discussing a lot of these ideas, as well as the idea of the intellectual property- intellectual debate, really just looking at the trips waiver in particular, and about the idea that it may not be as helpful. So I really think that we should be treating this as any other natural disaster. And many of the countries receiving these vaccines don't have that capability, the storage capability.
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You know, some of these vaccines need very cold, cold refrigeration. I think they ought to expand some of their facilities, make them larger, added some more production lines, and I think we really need to even bring in relief workers, even perhaps a FEMA type and military officials, personnel, to help deliver the vaccines, you know, out in the remote rural parts of undeveloped countries. GARY LOCKE: Well, I think some of these supply chain issues are very valid because you have manufacturing facilities going 24/7. So, who really bears the burden of sorting this all out, and are some of those concerns still valid? But initially, we heard a lot of different reasons for pushback from the pharmaceutical companies, including lack of resources, supply chain concerns, and some of these concerns as well, where even upon delivery, some of the countries were unable to then distribute the vaccine. Places in Africa have actually turned away vaccines because they don't have the refrigeration capability, the logistical transportation capability, or even personnel to administer the shot into people's arms.ĪNJALEE KHEMLANI: Ambassador, I'm so glad you brought that up because I want to talk about that first and get into intellectual property later.
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All of the American vaccine makers have issued free licenses to even generic companies and even to some of their typical normal competitors to produce the vaccine.īut we really need to expand the production facility, the existing facilities, and really focus on the human infrastructure, the delivery mechanisms of getting these shots into the arms of people. I mean, yes, all of our manufacturers are going 24/7. And really, we need to ramp up production facilities. So it's really incumbent upon all the advanced wealthy countries of the world to donate as many doses as possible to pay for the doses to distribute to the underdeveloped countries all around the world. I mean, President Biden has pledged a donation of over a billion vaccine doses, but the world really needs- the rest of the world really needs about 11 billion. GARY LOCKE: Oh, we're definitely not doing enough. Secretary, just out of curiosity, is the United States and the other advanced countries, are we doing enough, or what more could we do to help the rest of the world get vaccines?
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Let's bring into the stream the former US Secretary of Commerce, as well as a ambassador to China under President Barack Obama, Gary Locke, and Anjalee Khemlani, who covers COVID-19 and other health issues for us. ADAM SHAPIRO: As we consider COVID-19 vaccination protocols and the news today from the CDC regarding boosters, it's important to remember the rest of the world is trying to get their first shots.