Are these vaccination campaigns that are sort of these catch-up vaccination campaigns and i was jotting this down beforehand, they say there is in 2019, 57 campaigns that were supposed to take place in 43 countries and look at the number. it is affecting hundreds of millions of people, 200 million people, many of those campaigns ended up getting postponed because of the pandemic. so point is they were already behind, campaign to catch up, started to go into place, and the catch-up campaign had to essentially be delayed as well. and, you know, you re talking, you know, measles, tuberculosis, polio, that potentially are not being addressed. and then you lay on all the other acute problems we re talking about, and that s the real issue. i don t want to overstate things because people always imagine these gigantic epidemics or outbreaks that emerge after this, and, you know, they certainly can, but the real problem is because of the lack of infrastructure in the first place, the lack of
Especially a new drug. especially if you have to go to an infusion center and take it to our employment and have a needle put in your arm and it seems like a scary thing. our experience with these drugs and their use so far, is it clear that they are safe, well tolerated, that they don t have side effects of people should be scared of? i think you hit on a point rachel that we have been trying to essentialized broadly which is that there s no harm to the signal to monoclonal antibodies these are not harmful therapies and literally there are no serious side effects that accompany these because you potentially have these soreness and formulations but no major side effects and you also touched on something that i want to emphasize for our viewers. we have moved in the last three months away from getting an iv to get this therapy sent out subpoenas injection it s like insulin those who can jack, into a muscle, every day, now we moved toward subcutaneously formulations of these drugs.
Racial unequinequality. but, this is what i find to be so valuable about these testimonies recently. both president obama s and winfreys which is there s this idea of sort of, you know, people getting sorted a little bit. these folks are good, these are bad. you can tell these people are climbing up and these are not. there s not. folks come, they look all kinds of way and still get essentialized in this way. this is a very old part of sort of a civil rights movement that goes all the way back to the turn of the century when much of the initial responses, i ll just tell you the story again of plessy v. ferguson, that establishes separate but equal. actually has to tell the train conductor that he s breaking the color barrier at that time. and part of what these initial civil rights movements were, all the way back to the turn of the 20th century was about this question of whether or not those who were respectable enough and wealthy enough to buy first-class passage on trains could,