With seasonal flu, the response rate in healthy young adults ranges from 60 to 90 percent. We all hoped for 70 percent with this vaccine, but it wasn't to be. The next step is to give a booster to those who failed to respond, which we're already doing. Earlier studies have shown a third shot often increases immunity dramatically.
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We are tending much more towards making sure that we have pharmaceutical plants that are located on U.S. soil, so that we don't have a situation where if you have a global pandemic, then countries would obviously be nationalizing their factories. So, we want to work with other companies. We want to work with other countries. We want to work with international as well as domestic companies, but we don't want to have everything that we are doing be done outside of the United States, which is almost what is the situation right now.Dr. Fauci
It will take years to get stockpiles to the point you can effectively use it at the doses you want.
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It isn't an absolute, but you certainly can say that the chances of containing spread among bird flocks in developed nations that have good agricultural capabilities and controls, to identify rapidly and cull and eliminate the sick chickens to prevent spread . . . is much better than in some other developing nations.
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At the end of the day, you have a broader, more favorable, beneficial effect on society by preventing the spread by vaccinating the spreaders not the grandpa who sits at home watching TV and doesn't go out and spread it to anybody but is concerned about
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We're aiming at 20-million doses of a pre-pandemic vaccine but to develop the capacity to be able to make 300-million doses within six months of when we ultimately get the latest version of it that is the real killer.
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Every day there's another country. It's going to go all the way across, there's no doubt about it.
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