#Hyderabad will be an integral part of the Covid-19 solution just by the dint of the sheer vaccine manufacturing capacity it houses, feels Mahima Datla, managing director, Biological E Limited, which has a tie-up with #Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, to develop its own vaccine candidate and a tech collaboration to manufacture #Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine here.
Datla, who is also president of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), points out that most of the Covid-19 vaccine candidates are being developed by academic laboratories or non-vaccine companies, who don’t have the requisite infrastructure and will have no choice but to partner with companies in India or China.
In fact, most of Hyderabad’s vaccine manufacturers are in informal discussions for a manufacturing collaboration so that whenever a successful candidate is developed they can offer their manufacturing capabilities.
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“People won’t get a vaccine if they don’t trust the science,” said Dr. Peter #Hotez, a vaccinologist at #Baylor College of Medicine and a CNN medical analyst.
Polls indicate there’s already a great deal of mistrust, including a CNN poll last month showing 40% of Americans won’t get a coronavirus vaccine when it comes out, even if it’s free and easy to get.
Hotez said #AstraZeneca has shown a lack of transparency on several issues.
“It’s really unfortunate what they’re doing,” said Hotez, who is also developing a vaccine against Covid-19. “There needs to be transparency. This is just not acceptable.”
Hotez’s vaccine is not yet in human trials and has not received funding from Operation Warp Speed.
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