Name: What it takes to crush a pandemic | Johanna Benesty
Uploaded: 2020-12-08T19:36:00.000Z
Duration: 10 min 47 s
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He was never scared of people wearing masks,

My three-year-old daughter knows how to say "gel hydro-alcoolique."

That's the French word for hydroalcoholic gel.

She actually pronounces it better than I do.

or wash their hands with hand sanitizer every 20 seconds.

We're all desperately looking at R and D to find us a solution: a vaccine.

we keep thinking of the vaccine discovery like it's the Holy Grail.

But there are a couple of shortcuts here that I'd like to unpack.

biopharma companies, providers, global health institutions --

We need to find the tools to fight COVID,

and we need to make them accessible to all.

First, one single vaccine will not get us out of this.

We need vaccines, we need therapeutics, we need diagnostics

to make sure that we can prevent, identify and treat COVID cases

Second, it's not just about finding a tool.

What do you think will happen when one of those clinical trials

Do you think we can all run to the pharmacy next door,

we get the product, we take off our masks

Finding an effective tool is just one step in this big fight,

because there is a difference between the existence of a product

"Oh -- she means other countries will have to wait."

is that because of its speed and magnitude,

it's exposing all of us to the same challenges

and giving us a flavor of challenges we're not used to.

Did you imagine that you would be in the same situation

Let's go to the theoretical moment when we have a vaccine.

The current estimate of the global community

so that's over a year after the discovery of the vaccine --

we would have enough doses to cover one to two billion

of the eight billion of us on the planet.

How do you think about access when supply is short?

and those who can pay the highest price or be the fastest to negotiate deals

we could all agree, based on public health rationale,

Let's say we agree that health care workers would get it first,

countries who have demonstrated that they can manage the pandemic well

Years ago, when the supply of high-quality second-line tuberculosis drug was scarce,

to determine which countries had health systems that were strong enough

to ensure that the products would be distributed properly

and that patients would follow their treatment plans properly.

for instance, that people get to be vaccinated on their birthday.

How does it feel to think of a future where the vaccine exists,

but you would still have to wear a mask and keep your kids home from school,

and you would not be able to go to work the way you want

because you wouldn't have access to that product?

Every day that passed would feel unacceptable, right?

There are many diseases for which we have treatments and even cures,

and yet people keep being infected and die every year.

And that's just because we haven't completely figured out

Equitable access is the right thing to do,

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