If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?
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By giving the immune system a preview of the most critical part of the virus without causing disease, the vaccine gives the immune system time to design powerful antibodies that can neutralize the real virus.
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Decades-long funding cuts for pandemic preparedness hamper coordinated distribution and equitable access. We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.
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Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.
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