Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
PUNE, INDIA In a world of have and have-nots, Adar Poonawalla is most decidedly a have, with both abundant personal wealth and a corner on what promises to be a massive supply of one of the world’s most desperately sought commodities: COVID-19 vaccines. Affable but feisty and a fan of bespoke suits, the 40-year-old heads the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines. Before the pandemic, the company’s factories in India annually churned out 1.5 billion doses of vaccines 50% more than the next largest producer to protect against 13 different diseases.
Bills Receiver Cole Beasley Sparks Controversy on Social Media with Mask Debate [TWEETS]
We re well into the offseason for the Buffalo Bills and the rest of the NFL. Free agency and the NFL Draft have already come and gone, so now we re just waiting for training camp to start in late July. The season kicks off in September and for the Bills it will be at home on September 12th against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
However, players can be in the spotlight based off social media posts and on Thursday, wide receiver Cole Beasley sparked some controversy with tweets about masks and the pandemic.
How mRNA became a vaccine game-changer
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By: David Crow
The molecule behind the Pfizer and Moderna jabs has turned the Covid tide. Can it revolutionise medicine? Not for the first time, Katalin Kariko was trying to convince a sceptic to take her scientific discoveries seriously. It was 2004, and she had spent about 15 years investigating messenger RNA, the genetic material that acts as a kind of courier in the human body, transporting recipes from our DNA to the part of the cell that produces proteins.
After countless false starts and wrong turns, she had made a breakthrough and wanted to file a patent. But to do so she had to win over an intellectual property officer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she then worked as a researcher. Their meeting was going badly. He was not very enthusiastic, he kept on asking, What s it good for? recalls Kariko. I was just so disappointed that he wasn t getting it.
India should work out with other countries: Fauci
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14 May 2021, 12:18 GMT+10
By Reena BhardwajWashington [US], May 14 (ANI): Dr Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration s top medical adviser on Thursday (local time) said that it is imperative for India to collaborate with other countries, and companies to ramp up its vaccine production capability to vaccinate country s huge population against COVID-19.
Calling India as one of the best vaccine producer in the world, the leading American infectious disease expert said, It s a very very large country with a population of about 1.4 billion people, you only have a couple of percentage of the people who are fully vaccinated and over about 10 per cent or so that have at least one dose so you ve got to work out arrangements with other countries, other companies at the same time as ramping up your own capability of making vaccines because as we all know, India is one of the best if not the biggest vaccine producer in the world. As sever
WASHINGTON: Dr Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration s top medical adviser, on Thursday said that it is imperative for India to collaborate with other countries, and companies to ramp up its vaccine production capability to vaccinate country s huge population against Covid-19.
Calling India as one of the best vaccine producer in the world, the leading American infectious disease expert said, It s a very very large country with a population of about 1.4 billion people, you only have a couple of percentage of the people who are fully vaccinated and over about 10 per cent or so that have at least one dose so you ve got to work out arrangements with other countries, other companies at the same time as ramping up your own capability of making vaccines because as we all know, India is one of the best if not the biggest vaccine producer in the world.