![]() OMER: Well, there are two reasons for this. So what's your argument about why that is really ideal? ![]() What's your best argument for that? You could hear - you can imagine why some American citizens would argue that, you know, that American companies created this technology and its intellectual property and that transferring it to, you know, other countries is not in the best interests of the United States and the American taxpayers who paid for it. MARTIN: You're saying that there's an argument that if you really want to make a dent in this thing, then you have to move the capacity closer to the countries that need it, and the way to do that is by sharing intellectual property and technology on vaccine production. And a lot of players are there, but what is absent is an MRNA technology transfer partner like Moderna. WHO is facilitating a MRNA vaccine hub, technology transfer hub, in South Africa and has the infrastructure, potentially, to scale up to produce some of these vaccines. But it also should mean a comprehensive technology transfer initiative, an end-to-end technology transfer initiative to low-income countries. But this should be paired up with further increase in production for international supply. OMER: So first of all, these donations will, as I said, go a long way in saving lives. has made large donations and has actually delivered on those promised donations. MARTIN: So I take your point that the U.S. But having substantial donation doesn't mean that these are sufficient efforts. donations are likely to have already saved a lot of lives. So now there are some signs that that is increasing, and it is - you know, the U.S. And one of the reasons is that high-income countries blocked those doses, in a way, for their own use, and that supply is not available or hasn't been available for a while. They were promised a pretty substantial supply in 2020, and, well, but those supplies haven't materialized. OMER: Well, the biggest problem that low-income countries have right now is supply. MARTIN: So can you explain some of the challenges that low-income countries are facing when it comes to acquiring and then administering the shots? And how does the administration's plan address this, or does it? Omer, thank you so much for joining us once again. He is the director of the Yale Institute of Global Health. The Biden administration has pledged to donate more than 1 billion doses to the global vaccination push, so we're wondering if that will make an impact and what else would. In most poorer countries, only 2% of the people have received a dose. Citizens of wealthy nations make up an overwhelming proportion of the population of the vaccinated. But when you take a closer look at the picture, you see that it's skewed. Almost 50% of the world's population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, which doesn't sound too bad when you consider there are more than 7 billion people on the planet. ![]() © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.We're going to widen our lens here to talk about how to help the rest of the world cope with this crisis. “We quickly checked the pulse, and as soon as there was identification that there was no pulse and he was in cardiac arrest, CPR was immediately initiated,” Brenner told WESH. ![]() Suhail Saad-Omer - all switched into medical mode to save the man.Īll the training the residents have been through came in handy as they turned into a makeshift emergency room to help the suffering Montero. ![]() Nicole Brenner, a physician at Florida Osceola HCA Hospital, and the three residents - Dr. Montero had gone into cardiac arrest, but fortunately for him, a local physician and three of her residents were finishing up their meal and quickly sprang into action.ĭr. One Florida man was in the right place when he began suffering a heart attack while out to dinner with his family - little did he know there were four real-life angels at the next table.Įddy Montero was visiting daughters and meeting one of his grandchildren for the first time in the Lake Nona region of Orlando, Florida, where they were meeting for dinner when he began to feel dizzy and collapsed. Teen charged with threatening NYC subway massacre busted day before he vowed to shoot ‘anybody I see’įlorida boy calls in fake school shooter threat so he could ‘go home early’: policeįlorida woman caught with meth, Valium begs cops not to take her sex toy during drug bust Cuba claims Florida man tried to invade the socialist island on a jet ski ![]()
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