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Watching over the tax dollars we're sending to the research. >> absolutely, peter. if you look at it, the nih budget is $48 billion and 8 million went to ecohealth alliance in the dr. peter dazik and the funding that was going on at the wuhan institute of virology that was leading to some of the dangerous research that was done there and like you said, the inspector general said had there been proper oversight, some would have been identified much earlier and wouldn't have ended up where we're at with covid. there's a lot of issues going on at nih and i think, you know, speaker mccarthy appoin...

We can invest in the science to improve our vaccines. these vaccines are amazing tools and they're doing exactly what they're designed to do in terps terms of preventing people from the most serious signs of covid. we should push the science on this to enhance immunity. remember the fact that the current vaccines that prevent us from doing, that prevent us from the serious complications, but we're seeing breakthrough infections. if we can drive those -- drive down the infects and enhance the immunity in the back of our nose and back of our throat, these could be vaccines administered by nasal ...

We're hearing mixed signals somewhat from the white house in terms of timetable here. just today in fact dr. fauci thought that a vaccine could be approved for use for children between ages 5 and 12 by late fall. but his colleague at nih, francis collins, suggested it might not be until early '22. that is something that so many parents are concerned about. and there's no sense as to when a vaccine will be ready for those who are under the age of 5. you know, certainly there's a real focus here as school begins in much of the country over the next few weeks to try to safeguard those schools, a ...