joy i get a coincidence. that they're all previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab that i thought mission was. where the improbable but. good enough was the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like the winning the lottery there is a little. money firth. starts feb 11th on t.w. . operation vaccination a huge task unparalleled in history and the challenges involved a massive. many pastoral nations have been really sick should be a vaccine doses to be given to the shia but what about the poor countries. i think

this idea that you know really it we were protect ourselves 1st and then we would worry about others it is of course selfish but more than that the food is done but . he's a pundit he is the pandemic want to be over until it's over all around the globe biased. control of the corona virus pandemic this year with the vaccines that are available. to. the german city of maine it's up to the importance of a firm up until a year ago a few people outside the medical field had turned off. the startup and violent take it was time for developing innovative drugs to fight can something. in january 2021 decoy. one virus began spreading around the world company founded in halted ongoing

research and mobilized all forces to focus on a new goal developing a vaccine for the virus last fall we were among a few camera teams allowed to film the company. behind the sea that the right to find 3 goals firstly we needed a vaccine that triggers a powerful immune response and for then we needed to conduct clinical trials that prove it's affective and safe and thirdly we knew we'd need sufficient quantities of the back scenes of the for food. with many countries now proving the vaccine production is being ramped up the demand is huge it's a new type in fact seen known as messenger r.n.a. now it contains the blueprint for a virus tracy mccool says the body cells to develop a small amount of the virus so that it then produces antibodies to fight it to develop the vaccine quickly my own tank introduced

a 17 workweek and supplied creature trans artie's with doctors clinical trials progressed to speed up the approval process. when they called it our light speed project life we knew we had no time to lose it this year but we were also very clear that we didn't want any short cuts on it that we wanted to work best not overlook anything i think on the show at the break even while the vaccine was still mean developed by ontic was preparing for mass scale production joining forces with american pharmaceutical giant pfizer and chinese foes and. no model rise a good amount normally you wouldn't focus on production until later in the 1st test whether you have a viable back same on it but we moved forward with both things at once and we built partnerships with other companies that would allow us to manufacture the back same and make it a bailable anywhere on the planet warthen planet. some 200 other research groups

have also been working since january 2020 to develop a vaccine scientists in the u.s. and europe as well as china russia and the strata locked in the race to fight the pandemic. only it takes scenes to develop a new vaccine but this time humanity couldn't quite that long wealthy governments around the world poured billions into research. we will become. better. and so it's our responsibility to work together globally. national pride and propaganda played an increasing role as the international race for a vaccine gathered speed there we're almost there going to be announced very soon will be ready before the end of the year. medical research became the focus of the

international community as never before in a crash on scientists group as the political rhetoric increased there was coming concern that the rush to have a vaccine might lead to compromises on safety and adequate trials rushing at preliminary approval to its vaccine before it had gone through the only important phase 3 clinical trial with a vaccine is test unfasten some people that contravened international procedures. china also began to ministering to vaccines to members of the military and medical personnel long before clinical trials were complete. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration pumped billions into its warp speed program to produce that saints and secure us manufacturers the pole position are like anything our country has seen. instance the manhattan bridge.

in the end it was biotech and fire was the 1st step to faxon approved at least in the western world. in early december after britain issued emergency approval for the vaccine 90 year old margaret keenan became the 1st to receive the bio on tech jab. cooperate to help the paper's. candidate or in the united states also promote the biotech 5 survived st. the companies who pledged to deliver 200 meakin doses to the u.s. by maine.

just before christmas a 2nd vaccine came to merge and see approval in the us made by an american company montana like the one from buy on take to me is an m.r. in a fax saying. the bio taken or dinner vaccines was shown to be $95.00 a 94 percent effective in clinical trials. and a 3rd vaccine has now been approved to a so-called viral vector produced by oxford university and the british swedish company astra zeneca it's thought to be up to 70 percent effective against the virus that to a higher rate than required to be approved for usage. bought despite this encouraging development it's been clear all along that to begin with there wouldn't be enough vaccine for everyone so. should get it 1st like many countries germany is

prioritizing the elderly and seek. a new book so heads up the genetics council help to drop the guy a chance for distribution effects same. as they have and does i'll turn you didn't select the elderly for preferential treatment as if to play the different generations off against each other that's your own gain and ours zondervan as is todd so it's just the case that the data showed very clearly that old age is the greatest risk the actor the x. that is equal fucked off. or does good and there are some groups especially very elderly people in nursing homes for many 100 times more at risk than say someone like myself. but is everyone in germany willing to be inoculated. radical opponents of the vaccine have been protesting for months fearful that they

could be coerced into getting inoculated it gets they will. represent the city of a slash cheney showed the number of people in germany willing to have a kind of a 19 vaccine trucked is the most cost well in april 70 percent said yes they would get inoculations by the end of november that number had dropped to just 57 percent . and experts say between 60 and 70 percent of the population needs to be inoculated to achieve that immunity. and the willingness to be vaccinated dropped in many industrialized nations last year including the us. on the safety of the vaccine i am not sure i wouldn't want to be one of the volunteers to try it i wouldn't be to care about safety but that's something i have to do it's something i have to do. so facing the u.s. should 66 percent of those asked in july were willing to get vaccinated. dropped to

50 percent in september and didn't rose back to 63 percent. how is it possible to protect the global population of nearly 8000000000 people. on the pickguard the pandemic that seems need to be accessible and affordable for every country yes it is this fish that it's important that we consider vaccine as a global public good bit tough that their. violent expects in alone won't be enough to end the pandemic the pan the mean and the kind of work of endemic doesn't care which countries have rolled out a backs a nation program of what's important is that we achieve blanket immunization all over the world in our nunchaku. no one company can cover

that kind of demand it's not the money to work together and we need to help each other so that we're all in a position to make a vaccine available as soon as possible absence of. one solution could lie nearly 7000 kilometers away from biotechs german headquarters. tuna in india. the city is 3000000 miles southeast of mumbai in the indian state of maharashtra. times the world's largest vaccine manufacturer serum institute of india. the pharmaceutical company says it produces over one and a half 1000000000 doses of various vaccines every year. specialized in supply in the developing world and emerging economies who can't afford the vaccines produced in the west. this

serum institute says it's maxine's are used in 170 countries worldwide. after months of seeking to contact the institute out team was finally granted permission to film pierre last fall and speak to the head of research and development challis crown. swartz here mr premier we're putting a lot of your 1st story. help the entire globe to supply a large volume of vaccine serum is normal to really take care of would be super that election in the low low income countries poor countries and making it quit able access to all the people. normally these by reactors they used to produce vaccines to guard against tuberculosis polio and other diseases now the company has reserved a large part of its capacity to cope with 19 vaccines. so

the major challenge is when such a pandemic comes up everybody wants large volume of please 5 to 7000000000 losses are needed to be manufactured in short time. to meet the expected to match the same institutions county convention one of its new factories was built to manufacture other drugs but now produce coronavirus vaccines. generally lot of people live in there is a pandemic they start from the scratch so by the time the how well facility which can be were billions of those is pandemic probably sees don't so nobody is interested in the product and it this is a big plus of service to india we always expanded and created large facilities in anticipation of global news off several of our since as of a lead. we can't really handle such kind of products.

519 vaccines of can even produce children who know. one of them is the vector vaccine developed 5 of the university and astra zeneca in india it goes under the name of kofi shield. the same institute has signed a contract with astra zeneca to manufacture 1000000000 tonnes is of kovi shield the doses of destiny expressly for developing countries and india. right now we. are not roughly about 25 to 30000000 doses off for a vaccine is already manufactured by us at risk and we are continuing doing that. at least 50 to 60000000 doses someone. vaccine has now also been given emergency approval in india. but only on condition

that in the initial months at least this serum is to choose only cells the vaccine to the indian government. thanks to a soon to strange india has been able to start a large scale vaccination drive but what about other emerging economies in the developing world. the manufacturers of astra zeneca by ontic fires and more turner said together they will produce 5300000000 doses of vaccine in 2021. in theory that's enough for 3000000000 people so over a 3rd of the global population. but the majority of those doses have already been reserved the 27 member states the european union and 4 other industrial countries have already preordered hard those doses. the supply and their populations will be generous canada for example has secured. 9

doses for every single one of its residents followed by the us with just over 7 pad of population you with nearly 5 and india with just under 2. the problem is these countries who have secured harmful vaccines to be produced in 2021 only account for 13 percent of the population. of poor countries that means they won't be much left over at least not for the forseeable future research is that you can 1st city in the us a calculated that most people these countries will have to wait until 2023 or even 25 more to get the vaccine. german business journalist enrica hammon is skeptical about the behavior of wealthy nations in the current crisis. center so initially of course that the pharmaceutical companies needed money risk capital to push ahead with the whole production's of

understood and so it's logical that governments want vaccines in return but let's be clear there's a certain amount of nationalism at play here and this will get indian economists jayati ghosh wants of the dangerous consequences of vaccine nationalism well this is exactly why i called it a vaccine about it because it means that the countries with that are reaching a sure that their populations have the best access they will be the 1st story cover not just from the pandemic but also economically and the countries that are already poor already devastated by the health conditions they will wait so they will go through another year of economic devastation and illness. but the impending lack of vaccines for the global south is not only an entry to machine. devices is not respected in borders so the idea that you can protect your own population among . the above to the best and that you were there for the safe very foolish and get

some consensus but more than that it's food is it doesn't. that seem nationalism sent to increase the inequality of our world. but it's not even in the interest of the industrialized nations to paint in this way according to german economist bank right now. as this is gonski it's very important to understand that in addition to the medical and moral arguments there are also strong economic arguments for not just focusing on our own markets when the box although it wasn't a man was i'm just saying that's globalized capitalism really doesn't need a virus like 19 or not it will help because there are global supply chains and our entire economies are based on people being able to travel then on the hundreds or trade partners are economically on their knees because of the pandemic countries that supply wrong materials as well as the countries that import are manufactured

goods that cannot be in our interest. to kill try to risk of poor countries not having enough vaccine the world health organization created an instrument back in april 2020 cooled kovacs it aims to ensure equal and fair access to coverage in 1000 vaccines only of the amount participating countries pain to a joint fund which the w.h.o. uses to purchase don't cost facts ains said the wealthiest states financed the poorer ones. we now have the largest most die there are courts back scenes anywhere in the world we expect we have countries that cover 90 percent of the world's population that are agreeing to work together to get the best possible prices the best possible values and the best possible timing for the road out of these vaccines around the world. the jump you may choose distribution plant comprises 2 fantasists. in the 1st past in participating countries receive vaccines

to inoculate to medical personnel and one final point groups. then in the 2nd phase vaccines are supposed to go especially to countries with the situation is most urgent it sounds good but there are problems with 1st place simply muddy we need a substantial amount of money a bit over $5000000000.00 to be able to buy the vaccines that are needed especially for lower income countries. the 2nd challenge that we have of course is we're seeing a big 2nd waves of disease especially in the northern hemisphere it will be a huge political pressure to use the vaccines there 1st and to move back from the commitments to equitable rode out the world. politicians could face a difficult balancing act. is often too has so often in the world of politics there are different rationales at play here firstly politicians ask how do we fight this

pandemic worldwide but then there's the more in the biju a one off what do voters want from me often the. fundamental problem with the convex initiative is becoming increasingly obvious it depends alternately on the goodwill of the tone and nations if domestic politics dictates they can just move through their pledges and that's not only. when i think there were 2 fatal flaws with go backs one is that you know some important countries didn't join then the other concern with gov acts is that it didn't prohibit the country select joined from doing the side deal that should not be allowed because that goes against the whole spirit of good acts. but there are alternatives to the model of free will to nations. on october 15th the w.h.o. discuss a proposal put forward by india and south africa. the ngos to achieve a temporary weight of the so-called trips agreement which also protects the patents of farm. to tickle firms the agreement contains clauses that can be involved in

a medical emergency the way it was to ply only to comfort 19 health products a similar move in 2001 relating to hiv treatment for example gave millions access to cheap lifesaving drugs. and to have learned from the hiv aids pandemic that where there are patents protecting drugs there is always the danger that hundreds of thousands will die. simply because they just can't afford the necessary drugs and need a comment or so south africa and india wanted to have covert 19 paid the suspended for the generation of the pandemic so that cheap generic vaccines to be produced for poorer countries but the motion was overruled by wealthy nations unfortunately what we find is that multinational drug companies are able to lobby their governments very effectively it's very strong in the united states government they

really respond to the drug lobby but it's also unfortunately strong in europe the patients huge huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies in london to control prices but the vaccine companies have received billions in public subsidies. just a 10th of his patent protect companies to protect innovations and so forth. but the fact is that a large percentage of the funds that went into developing these vaccines came from public coffers by. a physician cuss and. there are legal alternatives such as compulsory licensing with commission is given to patients to be used without the consent of the patient hold up a patient pooled could be set up to corona virus vaccines and drugs to be shared but there's just a support for either option right now. biotech co-founder isn't keen on edition. intervention i thought. is

this is a saw this as a pharmaceutical company is simply an organization that is involved professionally and making safe drugs that it's of and that can only works when you have the companies get to the point where they're able to make a profit that they can reinvest in new research projects and developing new drugs when they are found that so and because. the biotech spec scene is in any case not suitable for use in poor countries of the global south. by on taking the beyond tuck approach is extremely intelligent but it's also extremely complicated i'm a lender poor countries don't have the infrastructure to be able to store and transport a complex drug so you need a very robust vaccine that will also work in the heat. in the. regions could come from the very country with the pandemic 1st started china.

questions remain of the efficacy of china soon of a vaccine what's clear is that chinese companies have developed a number of axioms that are easy to store. if you mean for the chinese are developing vaccines that are suitable for the global south because they're not dependent on a cold chain i mean they're also building up a kind of silk road for health products right off the ball on it for months now chinese companies and politicians who've been active in africa latin america and the middle east. is that another prospect that's a little uncomfortable for the west that in the not too distant future we're going to start seeing international that diplomacy fight communism. and china's vaccines are being welcomed with open arms at the end of december the 1st of the recent effects since you know from iraq to morocco and egypt a gift from the united arab emirates in fact seen him since. in

a free for use in china itself. the distribution of vaccines is a face value and medical issue but it's also an ethical one. aspect of some wealthy countries inoculating their populations a whole year earlier than poor ones violates principles of global solidarity and justice so i think it's only right that germany and europe are supporting and initiatives that aim to ensure vaccines are distributed worldwide as fast as possible tired feet as soon as does this may sound cynical but because the virus is a threat to us poor countries do indeed have some leverage in persuading the north to show solidarity norden is without assures. by the end of 2021 it's highly likely that a whole range of other vaccines will also be available. will they help us get the

pandemic under control. or will it continue to control us. confidence i hope the vaccine will mean we can get back to normal cancun. the next scenes will definitely help us they will help us to produce antibodies the job and the level of fear will go down we will. obviously i think this this pandemic will probably end around never in one year the pender will look very different it is still be a new normal because covert will still exist but we should be able to resume much more silex in a much more economic activity here that requires everybody doing their her single biggest barriers of that today a little choice about whether the finances work which we have got to do.

yes it did that without global cooperation you're never going to get rid of this problem and location data is not virus it's moving 93 will be some other thing maybe a vine is it maybe some others or noting disease it may be some other health hazard or they haven't even thought about it. scientists have managed to produce vaccines in record time and now it's up to the politicians and to a certain extent all of us to be flies on how we use them keeping in mind the bigger picture.

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