Sino Biological, Inc. (https://www.sinobiological.com; SHE: 301047) announced today that it has launched a panel of research reagents for the newly identified Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
effects, south africa, this was a case of brilliant cutting edge science by south african scientists, transparency by the government. they should be rewarded the governments of south africa and botswana for transparency and that should be incentivized not punished. the scientist that was reporting this tweeted today because of the travel ban he can t get the reagents to keep being our eyes and ears. that is a per verse incentive. one last thing and i appreciate you doing this on an important night here as we are doing a reset after thanksgiving in the midst of hanukah. the idea of what we should do prudently, get the booster, or assuming you can t do both because you don t have enough or get the vaccine you can to the other places with the 7% to create a base of prevention outside the united states as you outlined. assuming you can t do both nearly as well as you could do just one should that be the focus? let s look at the concrete numbers. w.h.o. has set a target of every
the travel restrictions issue, the rules of the road are set by governments themselves and that is the call of governments. w.h.o. asks governments to do two things. one is to make sure they re risk based and make sure they re time limited. i think we need to keep two things in mind here. one is they re not a silver bullet. they can have limited effectiveness. secondly, they have side effects, south africa, this was a case of brilliant cutting edge science by south african scientists, transparency by the government. they should be rewarded the governments of south africa and botswana for transparency and that should be incentivized not punished. the scientist that was reporting this tweeted today because of the travel ban he can t get the reagents to keep being our eyes
middle of next year. but as you point out, we can t get to that number in this country despite the fact that supply is not an issue. one of the three pillars of biden s global plan to fight covid is to rebuild health care systems and health infrastructure. what could the u.s. health care system do better to prepare for the next pandemic? i think this is a topic i ve been thinking about the most. at its core you re asking a question about, how do we convince a large society, a large country like this to invest in preparation, which sauls hard. pay a lot of money for something that may or may not happen that you cannot really see or feel until it does happen. it s challenging. it s challenging in our individual lives to do the right things in terms of our health. it s challenging in a societal level as well. but i think there s some specific things. what we learned is that if the pandemic happens all of a sudden everybody in the world wants the same things. the same reagents. the sam