PERHAPS ONE OF THE BIGGEST HURDLES STANDING IN THE WAY OF US OVERCOMING THIS PANDEMIC IS
THE MISINFORMATION THAT IS
STILL OUT THERE.
>> WHEN IT COMES TO VACCINES,
IT IS STILL SURGING, BUT SO
WERE CASES
NEW INFECTIONS. IN OUR
COMMUNITY SO IN TODAY’S CASE OF
Q AND A WE’RE JOINED BY TEXAS
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PRESIDENT AND CEO DOCTOR LARRY
SCHLESINGER WE SHOULD MENTION
TEXAS BIOMED WAS PART OF THE
RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING THESE
VACCINES. DOCTOR START WITH
ONE OF THE CONCERNS WE CONTINUE
TO HEAR OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
THE ISSUE OF PERHAPS THIS
VACCINE BEING CREATED
TO QUICKLY TO GIVE SOME PEOPLE
COMFORT EXPLAIN HOW IT WAS ABLE
TO BE DEVELOPED IN THE TIMELINE
BUT IT WAS.
>> GREAT TO BE WITH
YOU AND I WANT TO STATE THIS
VACCINE WAS NOT RUSH OUT THAT
YOUR THIS VACCINE REPRESENTS
THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS.
SCIENTISTS WORKING TOGETHER
WITH HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
AROUND THE WORLD TO RESPOND TO
A CRISIS OR EMERGENCY WITH
STARS WILL BE TOO. THIS
VACCINE.
UNDERWENT ITS EXTRAORDINARY
RESEARCH PRIOR TO
CLINICAL TRIALS IN ANIMAL
MODELS ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING
THE WORK TEXAS PLAN TO DO WITH
THE PFIZER VACCINE.
ANIMAL STUDIES CONTINUE
AND THEN THE CLINICAL TRIALS
BEGAN PHASE 1, 2, 3 CLINICAL
TRIALS THAT INCLUDED 10’S OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,
INCLUDING PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
AGES AND
DIFFERENT VULNERABILITIES AND
THIS VACCINE PROVED TO BE SAFE
AND EFFECTIVE AND ONLY THAT IF
THE VACCINE GET RELEASED UNDER
EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATIONS
SIMPLY THE PROCESS THAT A
VACCINE GOES THROUGH TO GET
INTO PEOPLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
BECAUSE WE’RE FACING A PANDEMIC
AND NOW THE VACCINES BEEN GIVEN
OUT TO PROBABLY ABOUT A BILLION
PEOPLE WORLDWIDE APPROACHING
200 MILLION PEOPLE IN
THE U.S.. AND THE VACCINE IS
STILL VERY SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
SERIOUS FOR A PORTABLE ADVERSE
EVENTS WELL BELOW ONE PERCENT.
SO THIS WAS NOT RUSHED OUT
TO WORK. THIS VACCINE UNDER WAY
WHEN THE VACCINES THAT ARE
AVAILABLE UNDERWENT EXTENSIVE
TESTING THAT’S BEEN FOUND TO BE
SAFE AND SET YOUR TEXAS BIOMED
HAS HAS PUBLISHED 40 SCIENTIFIC
PAPERS AT LEAST 40 SCIENTIFIC
PAPER SINCE COVID CAME OUT AND
YOU GUYS WERE INTEREST.
>> YOU MENTIONED THE WORK THAT
YOU DID WITH PFIZER I I’M GOING
TO GUESS THAT NOBODY KNOWS MORE
ABOUT THESE VACCINES. THEN YOU
AND THE PEOPLE AT TEXAS BIOMED
SO WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE SAY
THEY’RE WORRIED, YOU KNOW THAT
THIS MAY DO THAT THE ABOUT THE
MRNA ABOUT THE MESSAGE RNA
THEY’RE WORRIED THAT
YOU KNOW THERE’S SOME SORT OF
IT WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
IF THEY GET IT YOUR ANSWER TO
THOSE PEOPLE.
>> THE MRNA TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT 30 AND WAS ALREADY BEING TESTED
FOR OTHER VIRAL INFECTIONS.
COMING NICELY ALONG THE RIGHT
ONE. WE WERE
VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THIS
TECHNOLOGY READILY AVAILABLE.
AND THE SEQUENCE OF THIS VIRUS.
THE DNA CODE READILY AVAILABLE
FOR US TO RAPIDLY PRODUCE IT
INTO A VACCINE TECHNOLOGY.
THIS IS NOT BRAND NEW
TECHNOLOGY IS JUST
EXTRAORDINARY SCIENTIFIC
ADVANCE THAT ALLOWED THIS
MAKE IT THROUGH THE PIPE ONCE
YOU GET TO THOSE TRIALS.
>> AND THIS WAS A WORLDWIDE
EFFORT THAT IS THAT
STUCK WITH ME AND SOME OF OUR
PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU
AND I HAVE HAD ABOUT
FOR JUST THE MASSIVE SCALE ON
WHICH THIS WAS DEVELOPED AND
STUDIED AND SO OFTEN
YOU KNOW WE HEARD PRIOR TO
THERE BEING A VACCINE THAT
COULD TAKE YEARS FOR A VACCINE
TO BE DEVELOPED BUT IN THIS
CASE. THE MOMENTUM HAS
NOT DIED DOWN THIS HAS BEEN A
WORLDWIDE EFFORT. TONS OF MONEY
POURED INTO THIS AND IS THAT
USUALLY WHAT TAKES
SO LONG FOR SOME VACCINES TO BE
DEVELOPED THERE JUST ISN’T
ENOUGH. MONEY OR OR MOMENTUM
AND AN EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH.
>> WELL THAT’S PART OF IT AND
SCIENTISTS WORK IN TEAMS AND IN
THIS CASE, IT WAS INTERNATIONAL
TEAMS OF SCIENTISTS WORKING ON
ONE COMMON MISSION TO PRODUCE
THE VACCINE THAT’S PART OF IT
PART OF IT IS WHAT I’VE ALREADY
STATED THAT WE HAVE THE
TECHNOLOGY. WE KNEW RIGHT AWAY
THIS WAS A WE KNEW WHAT THE DNA
CODE WAS SO WE WERE ABLE TO MOVE THE VACCINE ALONG EXPEDITIOUSLY TO CLINICAL
TRIALS. YOU MAY NOT BE SO
FORTUNATE NEXT TIME.
THE OTHER POINT I WANT TO MAKE
IS WE’RE STILL IN THIS PANDEMIC
AS YOU KNOW CASE LOADS ARE
GOING UP AND WE HAVE BUILT THIS
TREND
SCIENCE CONTINUES. WHAT THE
PUBLIC DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THAT
WE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE
TEXAS CLIMATE AS YOU MENTIONED
HAS OVER 40 STUDIES, I’M GOING
TO LOOK
AT SOME OF THESE VARIANTS AND
IN THE ANIMAL MODELS WE HAVE
TROLLED SETTING TO REALLY
FIGURE OUT HOW TO
YOU KNOW DEVELOPING AND THERAPY
OR A
VACCINE THAT HE’S BEEN VERY
GOOD. SO THE SCIENCE CONTINUES
SO THAT WE CAN STAY AS BEST AS
POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE CURVE.
>> DO YOU THINK BOOSTER SHOTS
WILL BE READ NEEDED IN THIS
WHOLE PROCESS.
>> IT REALLY IS LOOKING LIKE A
VENN SHALEE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE
TO HAVE A BOOSTER WE KNOW FROM
THAT TYPICAL CORONAVIRUS IS
THAT THERE IS AWAITING A
COMMUNITY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 6
MONTHS TO 2 YEARS.
THAT DATA WE HAVE
COHORTS IN THIS UNITED STATES
TROOPS OF PEOPLE BEING STUDIED
AT WORLDWIDE. AND
THE DATA ARE BEING COLLECTED
AGAIN WE DON’T WANT
TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE
BROADER PUBLIC UNTIL THE
SCIENCE TELLS US WHERE THERE
AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE BEING
CAUTIOUS ABOUT YOUR DURING A
BOUT OF THE COUNTRY SAYS
REALLY SEPARATE. THAT
ADVOCATING FOR BOOSTER VACCINES
WILL HAVE TO REDUCE ASIANS
PUSHING BACK A BIT TODAY THAT
WE NEED TO GET FIRST VACCINES
OUT WE STILL HAVE A NEARLY A
BILLION PEOPLE IN THIS PLANET
WE’RE ONLY ABOUT A BILLION SO
WE HAVE ARE NOT OUT OF THIS
PANDEMIC TO GET
FIRST VACCINES. BUT EVENTUALLY
WE MAY FIND IT THE MOST
VULNERABLE WHETHER IT BE THE
ELDERLY OR THOSE WITH OTHER ME
COMPROMISED TISSUES. WE NEED TO
GIVE THE ROOSTER TOO.
>> DOCTOR AS WE WRAP THINGS UP
HERE WHAT WOULD BE YOUR MAIN
MESSAGE TO ANYONE WATCHING THIS
ABOUT THESE VACCINES.
>> YOU KNOW THAT THIS VIRUS IS
KILLING PEOPLE CONTINUING TO
KILL PEOPLE. AND YOU KNOW IT’S
AN OPPORTUNIST YOU KNOW IT IT
SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND VERY WELL
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNVACCINATED
ARE SUSCEPTIBLE. IT DOESN’T KNOW POLITICAL PERSUASION RELIGIOUS PERSUASION. GENDER
ETCETERA. TO SAVE YOUR
OWN LIFE. AND THOSE OF YOUR
LOVE ONCE IT IS TIME TO
GET VACCINATED IT ISN’T TOO
WORRIED THE VACCINE HAS BEEN
OUR SAFE
AND EFFECTIVE. I KNOW WHEN I
TOOK THE VACCINE I FELT BETTER
BECAUSE I WAS HELPING NOT ONLY
MYSELF BUT THE PEOPLE AROUND
AND I REALLY THINK THE VACCINE
IS THE WAY THAT WE CAN SOLVE
THIS PROBLEM AND WE JUST NEED
TO KEEP VACCINATING
HE GOING AND I THINK WE CAN GET
OUT OF THIS PANDEMIC.
>> DOCTOR LARRY SCHLESINGER
WITH THE TEXAS BIOMEDICAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE RIGHT HERE
IN SAN ANTONIO AS ALWAYS WE
APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND