companies in south africa. they ll have a billion over the next year, and we will have exceeded the global commitment of the u.s. government just with our research and student collaboration with biological e, so we re really excited to make that difference. incredible work, dr. hotez. congratulations to you and your colleague. thanks so much for joining us. thanks sto much, pam. as people try to return home from the holidays, a spike in omicron infections and airlines are cancelling flights at an unprecedented rate. ryan, what are travelers dealing with right now? reporter: as i said before, you think about covid, you think about air travel, you also think about whether that s hitting the northeast. you put all that together and it s a really bad soup when it comes to what travelers have to deal with. when you come here during the
your nomination. it s not the pfizer-moderna vaccine. can you explain what you re work on? yeah, this is from our texas children s center for vaccine development at baylor college of medicine, where we ve been developing global health vaccines for more than two decades, mostly vaccines for parasittic diseases. but we took on coronavirus vaccines about a decade ago and have developed a low-cost vegan vaccine made of yeast, similar to the hepatitis b vaccine. it looks really promising. we ve provided it with no patent, no strings attached to producers in india, bangladesh, and now southern africa. india is the furthest along, where they have 250 million doses. they re known as biological e and they ve now released the
to the hepatitis b vaccine. it looks really promising. we ve provided it with no patent, no strings attached to producers in india, bangladesh, and now southern africa. india is the furthest along, where they have 250 million doses. they re known as biological e and they ve now released the vaccine through the emergency use regulation. i think this will be an important step to vaccinate the world because it checks so many boxes for what you want for a global health vaccine. after all that, you were attacked on fox last night, compared to alex jones, called a misinformation machine, constantly spewing insanity, among other things. i know you received emails like this, shut your pie hole if you re not going to support our constitution. communist traitors, you can go to china if you like communism. we are not having it here ever. anyway, these kind of things go on and on. soon the republicans will be back in charge investigating your sorry you ll be sentenced to hang by the noose
Biological E and the Indian government will work together with WHO and their partners to develop a roadmap for producing mRNA vaccines as soon as possible. At present, India has no Covid-19 vaccine made on mRNA platform.