S1E76 / Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / John Nkengasong, James Krellenstein, Chelsea Clinton, Peter Hotez

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"You can't fight scarcity with scarcity. The only way out of the vaccine problem is by making a lot more of it." -James Krellenstein India is the world's largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbreak this spring. This is just the latest reason why global health leaders are calling for a new, decentralized approach to vaccine manufacturing around the world. In this week’s episode we’ll look at the challenge facing developing nations when it comes to vaccines; how life-saving technology like mRNA vaccines could be rolled out around the world; and why it’ll take a generational investment to make sure the developing world is prepared for the next pandemic. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	The whole global road map for vaccinating the world dependent heavily on vaccines being
0:12.6	produced in India for the world, so not only is India in a difficult situation, but we
0:17.5	even have less of a game plan for Africa and Latin America.
0:21.0	I just think we need to have a different mindset than we've had so far.
0:24.4	We need to have a global mindset to help tackle our global pandemic.
0:30.0	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social
0:43.5	impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:46.0	I'm your host, Dr. Saline Gounder.
1:00.0	India is the world's largest exporter of vaccines.
1:07.4	The country exports 60% of the vaccines used around the world every year, and the largest
1:13.2	manufacturer of vaccines in India is the Serum Institute.
1:17.7	So it was no surprise that a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID vaccines,
1:23.0	co-vax, decided to work with serum.
1:25.7	The deal was to make hundreds of millions of doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for
1:30.4	many middle and lower-income countries around the world.
1:34.2	In February, the first AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute for co-vax
1:39.2	arrived in Africa.
1:40.7	Today we are in Ghana, and this is really a historic moment.
1:44.6	As 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in the African nation, precious cargo
1:51.6	for the Ivory Coast.
1:53.4	On board this flight, more than 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced at the
1:59.2	Serum Institute of India.
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