Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi used an oldie-but- goodie technology to devise a vaccine that’s easy to make — and relatively cheap. India has already ordered 300 million doses.
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“The real beauty of the CORBEVAX vaccine that Drs. Hotez and Bottazzi created is that intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody,” Keith Martin says. “So you can get manufacturers in Senegal, and South Africa and Latin America to be able to produce this particular vaccine.”
By contrast, the makers of Pfizer and Moderna, for example, are not sharing their recipe.”
