Companies have the same time. You see that the richest countries in the world, the buying hundreds of millions of doses of these vaccines, specially in the context of that gates research. I dont have any worry that what youre doing isnt going to be enough to stop all the successful vaccines being taken by the rich of us as the poor. So i think that thats a very interesting analysis. And if you look at the total number of doses that the high income countries, but also india and brazil have purchased, its about 8800000000 doses are in excess of what they need. So what you, when you really look at it, there are a number of contracts and there are preorders contingent orders. So how that will play out in the end . Were not sure. But the more important point i think here is that kodaks intends to purchase 2000000000. 00 doses, and those doses will be provided to everyone and what cannot paper the Gates Foundation paper you quoted says, is that if the 1st 2000000. 00 doses are taken without
I should say, that have been the hit by scandal. Well, so you know, the, an international, actually an astute is an International Organization kind of like to view and show your 36. 00 signatories not a single g 7 signatory, but our mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, affordable and effective vaccines for Global Health. And actually what we did during this endemic is to say, were not going to compete, have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its, were working on our own vaccine to see what we decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with animal studies, with Clinical Trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy. But being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, the and your or your a strategy f
Have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its. Were working on our own vaccine to see what wed decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with Animal Studies with clinical trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy, that being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, and your, or your a strategy failed it is pfizer astra zeneca, those big multinationals that create the vaccines no, into your a un mandated vaccine institute. So actually, you know, our Vaccines Institute is, is funded really by, you know, the governments of korea, sweden, india, and finland and the Gates Foundation. The Welcome Trust. And our goal is really to get vaccines over the finish line. I mean, we dont think about it that vaccine is bein
Poet and educator in seattle and the author of free poetry collections including 2012 room. Also the New Washington poet laureate 21222014 and currently serving on the board of jack straw a local studio. Here today talking about the apocalypse factory. Please join me to welcome steve olson. Thanks. As you know kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those are about hanford. And then she will we eat paul from her new book of poems entitled post romantic coming out in october from the university of washington press. So to make sure my slides will work i will project her words onto a screen. Banks. And to say before i read the poem how im pleased to be a part of this evening and its wonderful to celebrate the publication of this book not just because i have poems in it but they are not told us much as i think they should be and then to get the story out i have learned all kinds of things from it and out there for people to read. This is the poem and its called stories that w
Sales way ahead of the season which would be black friday. Seismic shift here to this calendar here. Does this surprise you . Melody, you start to talk about it since june and every year it is further back. It is making me crazy. I admit that is maybe i am old school, everything you just mentioned until after thanksgiving that to me is the official Holiday Season bahumbug amazon is rewriting the script i guess in some way is good for them we have sales, walmart and target during the week and especially in light of this weird environment we are in which is an expectation of stimulus but no actual stimulus here well, we may be the line of misfit tonight there is no question amazon and walmart are the leaders. An acceleration of all these trends we spent so much time talking about fast money of the trends being pushed forward but already in place 49 measured through last month. As you go into the Holiday Season is bigger amazon about 32. 5 it goes to 38 they continue to take market share