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surveillance have done everything we can to bring you experts.

David Ricks is out of Purdue, he runs a shop called Eli Lilly and his Indiana, and they are dominant in our history of finding solutions, whether it's insulin,

arithmetic, and particularly what Lily did on polio vaccine in 1955

was absolutely original, absolutely historic. The phrase from that time is safe, effective, and potent.

That is the great hope right now for all of us.

Dave Ricks, how close are we to safe, effective, and potent?

Well, thanks for having me on.

It's obviously a time when the importance of our scientists' work is at a high, as you mentioned back to our days with the polio

vaccine that's really in our blood here at Lilius to respond to these public

health crises. We're working on the medicine side and I think we are close to understanding that treatment

with monoclonal antibodies which we're making and others are early in the

disease can make a significant difference.

We announced data earlier in October regarding that,

and we've got an application at the FDA

reviewing that very data.

Which therapy has the best outcome where we can say we have a vaccine?

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