if some democrat also refuses to testify to congress on something of this importance, absolutely. katyal, thank you for joining us. after the break, our friend steve schmidt weighs in on the disgraced expresident s latest assault on truth. stay with us. ith us
combination of the two should speed this process up. dr. bhadelia, this is a concern that a lot of people have, that vaccine manufacturing capacity that s regional and that s something to fix for the future. except that s not the case in india. they actually are a massive vaccine manufacturer, so is it infrastructure, is it distribution as dr. katyal says because you ve worked in ebola, and you ve seen what bad distribution of medication and health services can do. that s right. i mean, i think overall there are parts of the world that just don t have enough manufacturing capacity, and you can look at the continent of africa that has to import 99% of the vaccines administered there. but there are other countries such as india and south africa that had the infrastructure and currently the problem is there weren t enough raw material. we have to trace back to what happened which is covax, the w.h.o. utility put together to
try to vaccinate the world has sort of not been able to compete with countries that have basically done bilateral deals with manufacturers and perched all the vaccine. and hence those vaccines are gone and there are not raw materials for existing manufacturers to build that. but then there s the other step which is even beyond those conthies that have that capacity there aren t enough plants. and one of things president biden and the national security advisor said yesterday is they re going to work on g-7, work with our partners to try to look at this because moving forward because of this pandemic and living in the age of epidemics for the next one we need to have that capacity so it doesn t take us this long to get the world vaccinated. well, i hope people like you speak loudly and that we listen well because you are warning about this, and dr. katyal, thanks for what you do. you re sitting here helping people in your hospitals where you work, and then you re helping people oversea
Nair succeeds Shailendra Katyal who has been elevated as Site Leader for Lenovo India and Managing Director of Lenovo s PC and smart device business in the country.