Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i
A vaccine is being our vaccine. Our oral color vaccine is given to companies to, make without any benefit i. B. I. , our goal is to Impact Global health. And, and if we can do that in any way possible, then weve accomplished our mission. Well, you mention the Gates Foundation, their Research Suggests that global cova debts will double of high Income Countries by up to the 1st 2000000 doses of any successful vaccine. Do you agree with so thats a great study and weve been using it to advocate for something called codex. The kovacs cicelys is an organization under the leadership of the World Health Organization set, b. And gabby 192. 00 countries signed on to get 2000000000 doses of vaccine w. H. O. Approved vaccine by the end of 2021. And it will be given to the countries that are part of the facility, not how can 192 of them roughly 20 percent of their needs for now. And thats actually really important because its never been the case before that innovative Vaccine Technology has made it
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