more bulletins, of course, at the top of the hour. now it s time for hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. scientists have developed covid vaccines with unprecedented speed. now it s the manufacture and distribution which will dictate how quickly the pandemic can be tamed. my guest today, adar poonawalla, is boss of the biggest vaccine producer in the world, serum institute of india. he went all in on a production deal with astrazeneca, and for many of us, the jab we get will have been made by him. he is a super rich vaccine visionary. is he is driven by more than profit? adar poonawalla, in india, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be with you. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. the numbers are staggering, you have the ambition to produce more thani billion doses of your covid vaccine a year. how is the plan going? you know, that s exactly right. when we announced to do this, there was a lot of scepticism that would we be able to scale up in
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. scientists have developed covid vaccines with unprecedented speed. now it s the manufacture and distribution which will dictate how quickly the pandemic can be tamed. my guest today, adar poonawalla, is boss of the biggest vaccine producer in the world, serum institute of india. he went all in on a production deal with astrazeneca, and for many of us, the jab we get will have been made by him. he is a super rich vaccine visionary. is he is driven by more than profit? adar poonawalla, in poona, india, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be with you. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. the numbers are staggering. you have the ambition to produce more thani billion doses of your covid vaccine a year. how is the plan going? you know, that s exactly right. when we announced to do this, there was a lot of scepticism that would we be able to scale up in time and stockpile all these vaccines? when we fast forward now
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months to come. there is hope on the horizon. cautious and fragile. but there is hope. it is my hope president biden will do what leaders should do, which is deflect any perceived credit and shoulder at least his share of the responsibility. that is what leaders do. the reality is we are most hopeful because of the medicine. the vaccines, treatment and the therapies. that gives us both physical resistance to the virus and some measure of emotional security. the credit for the medicine goes to the women and the men who dedicated their lives to creating, studying and testing the vaccines in therapies. credit goes to those bold enough to believe this could be done and could be done in record time. some of those bold enough to believe were in the previous administration. i harbor no illusion that president biden will give credit to the previous administration and the women and men who help us get where we are today. but he should. it s been an american tragedy. an american respon
americans. this more than, there s reason for hope. more than 95 million vaccine doses have been administered. more vaccines are being delivered. despite this, the message from our nation s top health experts remains the same. we can t let our guard down. we are covering this historic day from every corn are of the united states, because there s no place the virus hasn t touched. we start this hour with nbc kerry sanders in fort lauderdale beach, florida. dr. gupta is in seattle. godi, i will start with you. one story line is how much more deadly and vicious this virus has been for minority communities, especially. what s california doing to fight that part of it? reporter: it s the minority communities that are often the essential workers. some of the disparities we have seen here in los angeles have really spurned authorities to try to make sure that those underserved communities and the essential workers are getting vaccinated first. what we have seen in the past is a li