what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the covert special monday to friday on t.w. . operation vaccination a huge task unparalleled in history the challenges involved a massive. many nations of already secured millions of vaccine doses to be to live in the shia but what about the poor countries. and i think this idea that you know really it we will protect ourselves 1st and then we worry about others it is of

course selfish but more than that it's food is done what. is abundantly is the pandemic want to be over until it's over all around the globe biased. how can the trauma of the corona virus pandemic this year with the vaccines that are available . the german city of maine it's time to the quarters of a firm that up until a year ago a few people outside the medical field had it off. the start up and bio take it was known for developing innovative drugs to fight something. in january 2021 the corona virus began spreading around the world company founded in halted ongoing research and mobilized all forces to focus on a new gong to. being

a vaccine for the virus last fall we were among a few camera teams allowed to film the company. behind my see that the right to find 3 goals firstly we needed a back scene 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 vaccines 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 of vaccine known as missing are inane it contains the blueprint for a virus trust seen causes the body's cells to develop a small amount of the virus sensitive and then produces antibodies to fight it to develop the vaccine quickly by anting introduced a 7 day work week and supplied regulatory authorities with doctors clinical trials progressed to speed up the approval process. or they called it our lightspeed

project life we knew we had no time to lose this year but we were also very clear that we didn't want any short cuts that we wanted to work best not overlook anything i think on the show that the record even while the vaccine was still mean developed my own take was preparing for mass scale production joining forces with american pharmaceutical giant pfizer and chinese companies to photos and. no modern rise of rhythm and 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 of once and we built the 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

a strata locked in the race to fight the pandemic. it takes years to develop a new vaccine but this time she managed she 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 that 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 and the pressure on scientists grew as the political rhetoric increased there was growing concern that the rush to have

a vaccine might lead to compromises on safety and adequate trials rushing at preliminary approval to its specs seen before it had gone through the only important phase 3 clinical trial with a vaccine is tested unfalsified people that contravened international procedures. china also began to ministering to vaccines to members of the military and medical personnel before clinical trials will complete. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration pumped billions into its warp speed program to produce that sainz and secure us manufacturers the pole position. like anything our country has seen since the manhattan bridge. in the end it was biotech and find it was the 1st step in. seen approved at least in the

western world. in early december after britain issued emergency approval for the vaccine 19 year old margaret keenan became the 1st to receive the bio on tech jab. cooperate to help the paper. write it. can a jury in the united states also promote the biotech pfizer vaccine and. the companies who pledged to deliver 200 meakin doses to the u.s. by maine.

just before christmas the 2nd vaccine gained emergency approval in the u.s. made by american company modernity like the one from by undertaking to me is an m.r.e. night that same. the violent takeover din of vaccines was shown to be 95 and 94 percent effective in clinical trials. and a 3rd vaccine has now been approved to a so-called viral vector produced by up speaking of a city 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 these encouraging developments it's been clear all along that to begin with there wouldn't be enough vaccine for everyone so you should get it 1st like many countries germany is prioritizing the elderly and the sick.

alina books who heads up the genetics council helped to draw up the guidelines for distribution effects amy. there have been those i'll turn you didn't select the elderly for preferential treatment as if to play different generations off against each other and our zondervan as is todd said it's just the case that the data showed very clearly that old age is the greatest risk factor. on disk 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 was. critical opponents of the vaccine have been protesting for months fearful that they could be coerced into getting inoculated it gets they will. represent you soon face last year showed the number of people in germany willing to have a kind of

a 19 vaccine trucked is the most cost while 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 head immunity. and a willingness to be vaccinated dropped in the 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 taking a perfect something i have to do it something i have to do. surveys in the us showed 66 percent of those asked in july were willing to get vaccinated that dropped to 50 percent in september and then rose back to 63 percent.

it was a possible to protect a global population of nearly 8000000000 people. in the park or of the pandemic that scene's need to be accessible and affordable for every country yes it is this fish to it's important that we consider back seeing those as a global public good bit tough that they're. violent it's maxine alone won't be enough to end the pandemic and even the mean and the kind of work of endemic doesn't care which countries have rolled out a vaccination program before what's important is that we achieve blanket immunization all over the world in i name one shop and. no one company can cover that kind of demand misnagdim i need to work together and we need to help each other over 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 biotech's german headquarters. in india. the city is 3000000 miles southeast of mumbai in the indian state of maharashtra. tuna is home to the world's largest vaccine manufacturer serum institute of india. the pharmaceutical company says it produces of a 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. asaram institute says its vaccines are used in 170 countries worldwide. after among. seeking to contact the institute out team was finally granted from

mission to film your last full and speak to the head of research and development. here mr for india we are putting a lot of air force to really. help the entire globe to supply a large volume of vaccine serum is normal to really take it over this is a bit of erosion in the low income countries poor countries and making it quit able access to all the people. normally these by reactors are used to produce vaccines to guard against tuberculosis polio and other diseases now the company has reserved a large part of its capacity to cultivate 19 vaccines. so the major challenge is when such a pandemic comes up everybody wants large volume of police 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 it was built to manufacture other drugs but now produce coronavirus vaccines. generally lot of people do when there is a pandemic they start from the scratch so by the time the how will facility which can be you are billions of bosis pandemic probably sees don't nobody in the industry in the product and it is a big plus of c.e.o.'s to india we always expanded and created large facilities in anticipation of global need off several of our sins as it were led by me we can really handle such kind of brags. 5 kinds of 19 vaccines apparently been reduced to rim you know. one of them is the vector packs. again develop 5 speed university and astra zeneca in india it goes under the

name of kofi shield. the same is to choose has signed a contract with astra zeneca to manufacture 1000000000 ptosis of kovi shield the doses of distant expressing for developing countries and india. right now we. know roughly about 25 to 30000000 doses of 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 soon is to shoot only sells the vaccine to the indian government. thanks to us industry india has been able to start

a large scale vaccination drivers but what about other emerging economies in the developing world. the manufacturers of astra zeneca by antic pfizer 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 much ocean of those doses have already been preserved 27 member states of the european union and 4 other industrial countries have already pre ordered huff those doses. the supply and their populations will be generous canada for example has secured nearly 9 doses to every single one of its residents followed by the us with just over 7 per head of population the e.u. with nearly 5 and indeed. with just one to 2. the problem is these countries who

have secured home the vaccines to be produced in 2021 only account for 13 percent of the population. poor countries that means there won't be much left over at least not for the forseeable future research is that you could infer city in the us a calculated that most people in 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. initially of course that the pharmaceutical companies needed money risk capital to push ahead with the whole production's of underspend 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 better reach make sure that their populations have the 1st access they will be the 1st story governor 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 does not mean if you do issue. dividers there's no respect to the borders so the idea that you can protect your own population and not worry about the rest and that you were there for the safety is very foolish 1000000 it is a consensus but more than that it's foolish it doesn't want to. banksy 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 and try not. as a systems 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 in the box office or among was i'm just saying that globalized capitalism really doesn't need a virus like kovac 19 or not it will help because there are global supply chains and our entire economies are based on people being able to travel and then also 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 our men a fractured goods that cannot be in our interest. to kill truck the risk of poorer 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 facts in school not the amount participating countries spain to a joint fund which the w.h.o. uses to purchase no cost facts seems certain will few states finance the poor ones . we now have the largest most die there of course back. 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 lawyers the best possible timing for the road out of these vaccines around the world. to tell you a chose distribution plant can process 2 faces in the 1st phase when participating countries receive vaccines to inoculate to medical personnel and in fun open groups . then in the 2nd phase fax. it's

a supposed to go especially to countries where the situation is most urgent it sounds cool but there are problems with 1st place simply body we need a substantial amount of money a bit over 5000000000 dollars to be able to buy the vaccines that are needed especially for the 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 use the vaccines there 1st and to move back from the commitments equitable rolled out across the world. politicians could face a difficult balancing act. because we're off to 2000 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 individual one of what do voters want from me of one. fundamental problem with the kind of facts

initiative is becoming increasingly obvious it depends alternately on the goodwill of the tone in nations if domestic politics dictates they can just move the truth their pledges and that's not only. when i think there were 2 fatal flaws with callbacks 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 facts. 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. then aim was to achieve a temporary white of the so-called trips agreement which also protects the patents of pharmaceutical firms the agreement contains closes that can be invoked in a medical emergency the way it was to ply only 2 kinds of 19 health. products

a similar move in 2001 relating to a child free treatment for example gave millions access to cheap life saving drugs . and. we 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 they need it comment so in south africa and india wanted to have covert 19 paid 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. patients huge huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies in london to control prices that

the vaccine companies have received billions in public subsidies. just pretend patents protect companies to protect innovations and so forth and so shots non-self but the fact is that a large percentage of the funds that went into developing these vaccines came from public coffers by. a physician. there are legal alternatives such as compulsory licensing with commission has given to patients to be used without the consent of the paid and hold up a patent pooled could be set up to corona virus vaccines and drugs to be shared but this doesn't support for either option right now. biotech co-founder isn't keen on additional state intervention i thought. is this is a saw this as a pharmaceutical company is simply an organization that is involved prefer. only

and making safe drugs for us not 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 own take the beyond tuck approach is extremely intelligent but it's also extremely complicated i'm a lender who are 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 often affords a new. hope for poor regions could come from the very country with the pandemic 1st started china. while questions remain of the efficacy of china soon a vaccine what's clear is the chinese companies have developed a number of facts things that are easy to store. if you mean force the chinese

are developing vaccines that are suitable for the global south because they're not dependent on a cold chain they're also building up a kind of silk road for health products right off the ball on for months now chinese companies and politicians who've been active in africa latin america and the middle east. that is that is 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. and china's fact scenes are being welcomed with open arms at the end of december the 1st in the recent effect since you know from iraq to morocco in egypt a good from the united arab emirates the vaccine has since been approved for use in china but so far. the distribution of vaccines is it face value. medical issues but it's also an ethical

one. dusty the prospect 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. does this may sound cynical but because the virus is a threat to us the poor countries do indeed have some leverage in persuading the north to show solidarity norden down a shows. by the end of 2021 it's highly likely that a whole range of the facts scenes will also be available. to help us get the pandemic under control. and will continue to control us. confidence i hope the vaccine will mean we can get back to normal he can come.

back scenes will definitely help us they will help us to produce antibodies the job and the level of fear will go down we'll. see i think this this pandemic will probably around never in one year the pender will look very different and still be a new normal because covert will still exist we should be able to resume much more so i let you know much more in economic activity is that what it requires their free money during their current single biggest merger that today a little choice about whether the finances work which we have got to. get it into that without global cooperation you're never going to get rid of this problem ok do. not buy this. it's over the line to me when the some other thing

maybe a band is it maybe some others or nothing to it maybe some other. hazards are beyond even thought about getting. scientists have managed to produce vaccines in record time and now it's up to the politicians and to a certain extent one of mystifies on how. keeping in mind the bigger picture.

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